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Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
The author discusses Muslim unity. He states that the many meetings and
conferences held have not brought about any effectual results. The current danger in the Islamic world is
that some
Muslim schools are trying to use Islam to gain Muslims’ compassion to achieve political
authority.
Date of source: Sunday, October 15, 2006
The Muftī of Egypt Dr ‘Alī Jum‘ah issued a controversial fatwá that a pregnant woman whose husband had died or left for four years cannot be considered an adulteress.
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
The following
article addresses Mahmūd ‘Āmir’s attack against the
Shī‘ah
and the political and religious danger they bring to Egypt and the
Islamic world, by comparing them to the
Muslim Brotherhood. ‘Āmir blames the Azhar
leadership and the National Democeratic Party for
their support of...
Date of source: Saturday, October 14, 2006
Many hadīth were falsified over time. Islam
is a religion
that needs a renaissance to reveal its true image.
Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
Ramadān al-Baih states the criteria for a good, reliable muftī.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 10, 2006
The Egyptian
muftī, Shaykh
‘Alī Jum‘ah, was severely slammed by a
number of Muslim scholars for his recent
fatwá, in which he permits mobile phone companies to
install their towers on mosque minarets.
Date of source: Monday, October 2, 2006
Muhammad al-Bāz wonders whether Shaykh al-Qaradāwī really
deserved the humiliation and
insults that Moroccan clergy directed at him after his controversial fatwá
on bank interest.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Egyptian Shaykh al-Qaradāwī
pronounced
a fatwá that enables Moroccans to use bank interest to obtain accommodation. The
fatwá
aroused the anger of Moroccan Muslim intellectuals who considered it interference in
Morocco’s interior affairs.
Date of source: Thursday, September 21, 2006
A recent fatwá by prominent Muslim intellectual Jamāl al-Bannā, stating that smoking does not spoil fasting has sparked massive controversy amongst Muslim scholars and clerics who described the fatwá as "totally irresponsible" and contrary to the teaching of Islam.
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 1997
Subtitle: 1- The leader of the organization says, "When Dr. Yehia Ismael said that Hanafy was an apostate, we decided to kill him" 2- The one who was supposed to carry out the operation says, "The plan was to kill him with penknives. I have trained on how to do this in Nozha" 3- An official...
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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.