Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Last week I read an article by one of them published in Asharq Al-Awsat on August 9. The main idea of the article was based on imagining an Arab-Muslim person in a room with representatives of different religions and races. The author of the article raises the question: How would this Arab-Muslim...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Muslims have many difficulties with modernity perhaps because Muslims believe that they should not achieve anything but should receive the achievements of others. This is a feature of the simple Bedouin life where the Bedouin does not work and waits for the work of nature, like rain or eruption of...
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Several readers have sent letters in response to a previous letter by reader Samīr Farancis criticizing Dr. Zaghloul al-Najjār’s articles about the scientific miracles contained in the Qur’ān. The first of these letters was by Hamdī ‘Abd al-Mo‘tī ‘Alī, who said Dr. Zaghloul al-Najjār needs nobody’s...
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Rose al-Yousuf presented a file with six articles about the same subject written by Sayyid al-Qimnī, Muhammad Shahrour, ‘Abd Allāh al-Najjār, ‘Abd al-Sabour Shahīn, Hāla al-Bannā, Majdī al-Milījī.
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 2004
Today, we will discuss the factors affecting this loss of trust between the Islamic world and the West and the obstacles to restoring this lost trust. We cannot say that trust between the West and the Islamic world has vanished completely but it was very negatively affected by the following factors...
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 2004
Dialogue with a society like the Western society, where there are many orientations, needs a special philosophy in order to reach the targeted audience. Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar said, “We should focus in the meantime on explaining the truth of Islam to the Western world because there are evil forces...
Date of source: Sunday, May 13, 2007
The author investigates the traditions surrounding death in Islam, and the belief in the afterlife.
Date of source: Sunday, April 15, 2007
The author considers reform in Islam, outlining the inhibiting stance that many Western countries adopt regarding reform in the Islamic world. The era of ‘political correctness’ has led many to blindly ignore violations of human rights in the hope of maintaining a level of correctness while not...
Date of source: Friday, April 13, 2007
‘Abd al-Karīm has been sentenced to four years in prison after he was charged with instigating sedition.
Date of source: Monday, April 9, 2007
The article represents the different opinions regarding the abortion of the deformed fetus.