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Date of source: Monday, October 4, 1999
The head of Lebanon’s Sunni Muslim community has said he was behind moves to put musician Marcel Khalife on trial for "abasing" Islam in one of his songs, a London-based Arabic-language daily reported Sunday.
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 1999
A prominent Lebanese composer and singer has been formally accused by an investigating judge of insulting Islam. Judge Abdul Rahman Shihab demanded the imprisonment Marcel Khalife from six months to three years for (allegedly) insulting religious rituals by using the chapter of Yusif from the Holy...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 29, 1999
The Cabinet decided to toughen the punishment against adulterers "to prevent people from committing adultery."
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
[Letter to the editor ]
Thanks to the courageous work of human rights activists and the ordinary Jordanian citizen, who consciously and persistently have spoken out and condemned the horrible injustices inflicted upon women in our society, the campaign against " crimes of honor " in Jordan is...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
His Majesty King Abdullah’s advisor on Islamic affairs called for amendments to the penal code which they believe encourages men to kill female relatives for involvement - real or suspected - in illicit relationships.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999 to Wednesday, September 15, 1999
It is often mentioned that Islam is a religion which establishes a complete code of serious morality. It wants its followers to maintain and operate that code in their own social life, so that their dealings and their ties are established on the basis of Islam. The seriousness of Islamic morality...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999
A review of the book: "The Marriage Bed. Sexuality in Islam" by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba. Published in London by Saqi Books, 1998. In this book is one of the few attempts at dealing with the dimension of sexuality in the teachings of Islam and the way in which these teachings have become distorted by...
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Officials at Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institution, are in the process of preparing a religious edict they hope will help discourage the controversial practice of naming commercial enterprises after any of the 99 names of God.
Date of source: Friday, September 3, 1999
Muslim communities are being targeted by missionaries who wish to spread their faith. ... Our responsibility is to defend our community, since all believers in Islam are a single community as God says. That defense may take several forms, but the most effective one is to ensure that Muslims know...
Date of source: Sunday, September 2, 2012
Sheikha Nadia, a female sheikh, has developed treatment against diseases with magic and jinns. Azhar scholars, however, don’t believe in her way of curing since is not even able to read the Qur’an correctly.
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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.