Date of source: Thursday, March 11, 2004
The media secretariats in the NDP’s branches in the governorates started discussing the working paper that concerns the development of the religious discourse.
The religious discourse that we need should play a central role in forming our religious conscience, which cannot develop without the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
In a cultural symposium attended by Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazy in the Kuwaiti Cultural Center, participants discussed the modernizing of the religious discourse. Many controversial issues related to the main subject triggered dialogue and heated answers.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
What is the ultimate religious goal? Is it just prohibiting some kinds of food and drinks? Is it just stipulating some marriage and divorce laws? The answer is no. The ultimate religious goal is for man to learn the great facts that he cannot realize by himself. These facts are what God wants from...
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
The second meeting of the Conference on Recent [Topics] in Islamic Thought, organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf [Endowments], witnessed a hot debate about the possibility of renewing fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] terminology concerning jihad and international relations. The conference, the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
In a meeting yesterday with the members of the Rotary Egypt clubs, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, Egyptian Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], denied any incidence of foreign orders to renew the religious discourse. He confirmed that renewing the religious discourse is an genuine Islamic cause.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The religious, political and social covers are interwoven into a thick cover from three layers. The religious cover gives the political cover its legitimacy, and the political cover uses the religious cover to strengthen its base. The threat of the cover is that it could burst one day, if the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 20, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center is nowadays spreading its opinions through a series of seminars it organized under the title “Renewing Religious Discourse.” The center puts forward suspicious ideas declaring that the Islamic thought needs to be reformed because it is not based on a valid logic. Al-Liwaa’...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 25, 2004
The theology of liberation is considered the most notable movement against the capitalist system and traditional beliefs and ideas inside the church.
The theology of liberation is in conflict with the traditional ideas inside the church, not a religious conflict but a political conflict.
The...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Asharq Al-Awsat obtained the publishing rights of the book written by Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiya member Nageh Ibrahim in which he chronicles the ideas of the group’s historical leaders. Titled “Al-Islam wa Tahadiyat Al-Qarn Al-Eshreen” [Islam and the challenges of the 21st century], the book presents...
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 2004
The problem that Islam and Muslims are facing now is primarily an internal problem. The main problem lies here in our methods in understanding this great religion of freedom, justice and tolerance. Some men of religion conspire with people in power in order justify tyranny. Some men of religion are...