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Date of source: Thursday, October 5, 2006
For the third week, Pope Benedict’s controversial remarks on Islam and
the Prophet
Muhammad have made headlines in Egyptian national and independent newspapers. A number of Muslim
intellectuals devoted their columns to refute claims about the spread of Islam by the sword. Some Muslim
scholars...
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
A new Islamic satellite channel
launched five
months ago is said to be successful with the people, but is also criticized by scholars for promoting
extremist salafist ideas.
Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
Nabīl Salamah advocates for the whole world to cooperate in
re-
reading history towards an objective point of view - towards strengthening values of peace, justice and
love. These
are the values common to both religions: Islam and Christianity.
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
Al-Wafd newspaper interviews Islamic preacher Khalīd al-
Jindī,
who rejects claims that he is one of a group of modern Islamic preachers because he wears western
dress.
Date of source: Monday, October 9, 2006
Hafīz Sa‘d writes about a recent
document entitled ‘Al-Ikhwān wa-al-Dīmūqrātīyah’ [Reviewer: Muslim Brotherhood and
democracy], written by Dr. Mahmūd Ghazlān, a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s
executive office who is also known as the number three man in the group’s leadership...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Salīm
al-‘Awa criticizes the
abilities of the Shaykh of al-Azhar in drawing up
fatwás, since he is not a specialist in Islamic
jurisprudence.
Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006 to Friday, October 13, 2006
The author of the
article, Mustafá Bayyūmī, provides a literary analysis of
some of Najīb Mahfūz’s works,
highlighting the great writer’s allusions to the companions of
the Prophet Muhammad in most of his
writings.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 4, 2006
The author
argues that
the West’s advancement has nothing to do with being Christian or Muslim but is dependent on the
social
capabilities of people in a specific geographic region.
Date of source: Saturday, October 7, 2006
It is
an unfair offense what the pope said about Islam being spread
by force. Islamic history is full of examples
of the liberty and respect by which Muslim leaders treated newly
conquered cities, at a time when the
Byzantine Empire had no rules for fighting and killing.
Date of source: Friday, October 6, 2006
This article compares Arab and Western
perspectives on the mind and
faith and explains the Islamic concept of equality between men and women.
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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.