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Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2005
The article discusses the phenomenon of business in the name of Islam and cites prominent Muslim scholar, Dr. Ahmad ‘Umar Hāshim’s theological arguments on the matter.
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Muhammad Fatouh argues that money has tempted hijāb-wearing actresses back to the television screen, even though, 20 years ago, they considered acting harām [forbidden by Islam].
Date of source: Saturday, October 22, 2005 to Friday, October 28, 2005
Khomeini’s Iran, the Taliban’s Afghanistan, Nimeiri’s Sudan and several other countries have claimed to be ruled according to Islam. Yet such ’Islamic’ rule merely led to backwardness and oppression. The elite in Egypt are terrified by the idea that a theocracy Egypt would bring a whirlpool of...
Date of source: Saturday, October 8, 2005 to Friday, October 14, 2005
Common misconceptions amongst Muslims are unfairly attributed to Islam. They exaggerate and go as far as forbidding things that were not forbidden by Allāh such as keeping dogs in their houses; using derivatives of pigs and wine and even blood transfusion.
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
‘Ādil Jindī states that Ramadān is a proponent of a theory that says Islam in the future will represent a bastion of resistance against Western hegemony, adding that the growing licentiousness in the West will eventually lead to the triumph of Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Members of the Jordanian Brotherhood took to the streets in 1990 to express vehement rejection against the use of US forces to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion. Some even supported Saddam Hussein himself.
Date of source: Saturday, October 1, 2005 to Friday, October 7, 2005
The author suggests that extremists twist religious texts to suit their own aims.
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
Banks are all the same, regardless whether they carry the name Islamic or not. They all work in accordance with a worldwide banking system. A study conducted by a group of professors and think-tanks from the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) held that the so-called Islamic banks are...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 2004
The most respectable artistic magazine in Egypt, Al-Kawakib [The Stars], published an article about the views of the new preacher Amr Khalid on art. Although superficiality of Khalid’s opinions is expected, deception is not accepted. Amr Khaled applied a cunning trick to corrupt the original...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Dr. Soad Saleh, the head of the department of compared jurisprudence at the Azhar University, proposed her idea of creating a committee for women's fatwas to be affiliated with the Dar Al-Iftaa [House of fatwa-giving] to the current Grand Mufti Dr. Clearly enough, Dr. Soad has been totally...
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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.