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Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Dr. Abdel-Mo´ti Bayoumi expressed the opinion that Muslims need to adopt a religious discourse that can reconcile them with the whole world. He added that all scholars have the right to give fatwas and even women can give fatwas.
Date of source: Sunday, February 3, 2002
Religious discourse bears within itself the understanding of the one who delivers it of the teachings of religion. It differs from one person to another and changes from one historical phase to the other. Credibility is one of its important factors. The special religious discourse should correspond...
Date of source: Friday, February 1, 2002
Reforming the religious discourse means neither changing any of the bases of Islam nor being biased towards the group to which the religious discourse is directed. Also it is not only confined to developing the ways of Da´awa. Reforming the religious discourse means reforming the Islamic...
Date of source: Monday, January 14, 2002
In the first session of the religious committee of the People´s Assembly, President of the People´s Assembly said that Islam has never been a religion that calls for violence or terrorism. The Sheikh of the Azhar said that as distant as heaven is from earth, so terrorism is from jihad....
Date of source: Sunday, January 8, 2006
The scenes of the national unity iftār [fast-breaking meal during the holy Muslim month of Ramadān] and the shaykh of the Azhar sitting next to the pope on official occasions no longer reflect the new reality.
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2006
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd, a celebrated modern scholar of Qur’ānic studies, who fled to the Netherlands after the Egyptian courts ordered that he be forcibly divorced from his wife on charges of apostasy, argues for reform of religious thought and an end to corruption.
Date of source: Thursday, December 8, 2005
The author discusses the issues that have been addressed at Muslim summits of the past and suggests that Muslim leaders have neglected the truly important issue: poverty in the Muslim world.
Date of source: Friday, November 25, 2005
The author suggests that beyond the complaints about poverty and unemployment lies an intellectual crisis, which is revealed in terrorist attacks.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 22, 2005
A scathing criticism of political Islam, providing alternative ways of addressing the intellectual crisis of the Islamic world.
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2005
The author argues that the radical changes that Saudi Arabic has witnessed over the past three decades have contributed to a religious and cultural crisis, marked by a failure to interact with modernity.
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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.