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Date of source: Monday, January 22, 2007
In a series of articles, entitled ‘The Perils of a Religious State,’ Dr. Jābir ‘Aṣfūr, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Culture, warns against the dangers of Islamic theocracy.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2007
In a series of articles, entitled, ‘The Perils of a Religious State,’ Jābir ‘Aṣfūr, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Culture, examines the first calls for the establishment of a religious state and warns of its dangers.
Date of source: Monday, December 25, 2006
The monopolized religious authority is an echo of the political monopolized authority and the
result of hard financial conditions and regressing social and educational values.
Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2006
Many of the
issues considered
as belonging to the proven and known in Islām can change according to time and circumstances.
What some
think as protection from foreign danger is really a restriction of development that gives one group of
clergymen the authority to control the beliefs and...
Date of source: Monday, November 6, 2006
The author discusses the way the late Egyptian Nobel laureate Najīb
Mahfūz dealt with the issue of religious extremism and terrorism in his novels, namely those of the 1980s, in
which he tried to detect reasons for the spread of fanaticism in the Egyptian society.
Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2006
The author discusses the way late Egyptian Nobel laureate Najīb Mahfūz dealt with the
issue of religious extremism and terrorism in his novels, namely those of the 1980s, in which he tried to detect
reasons for the spread of fanaticism in Egyptian society.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Growing fundamentalism has become terrorism and has targeted intellectual and political elite. The reasons for these developments and their consequences are mentioned in the following text.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Jābir ‘Asfūr describes the history of terrorism
and the appearance of extremist Islamic
organizations in Egypt after the end of Nāsir’s rule and the
beginning of President Sādāt’s
era.
Date of source: Monday, July 24, 2006
The author speaks
about fundamentalism, noting it has negative impacts not just on the
political arena but also on the arts and on
creative works.
Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2006
Dr. Jābir ‘Asfour quotes the very beginning of the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads: "recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world...”...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.