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Date of source: Saturday, March 4, 2006 to Friday, March 10, 2006
The article discusses a draft law proposed by a women’s rights advocacy center calling for denying Muslim men the right to have a unilateral divorce, while at the same time stressing women’s freedom to have a unilateral divorce.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The author explains the term "Islamic secularism." Islam is an absolute religion like all other revealed religions and secularism is a relative philosophy like all other philosophies that are open to change and modification. The adjective "Islamic" gives secularism an Islamic dimension and not the...
Date of source: Thursday, December 11, 2003
A good dialogue within the society should be a productive one, meaning that it should not be an ideological debate in which each party seeks to defend his point of view correctly or incorrectly. The author discusses the ideas of Muslim Brotherhood leader Dr. Esam el-Erian.
Date of source: Monday, November 24, 2003
The owner of a specious center that depends on foreign aid stated that the Islamic Shari´a is a failed project and that its application harmed Islam and Muslims and contributed to the creation of terrorism. On the other hand, the American Senate allocated two million dollars cut from the...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 18, 2003
The article presents five questions and their answers, which were published in the book “Nahr Al-Zikrayat” [The River of Memories] by leaders of Al-Gama´a Al-Islamiya. The questions about the non-violence initiative published in the book were directed to leaders of Al-Gama´a Al-Islamiya...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 4, 2003
The Sunna of the Prophet is the second source for the Islamic Sharia [the first source is the Holy Qur´an]. The author argues that there are too many inauthentic, false hadiths, yet, raising doubts concerning the entire Sunna is a very extremist attitude. The best solution to such dilemma is...
Date of source: Monday, September 8, 2003
The author comments on the statement of the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood about Copts, which he gave to Sout Al-Umma in a previous issue. The author believes that speaking about a partial representation for Copts is very dangerous as the result would be a plain sectarian system of ruling...
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2003
The article is an interview with Ma´amoun Al-Hodeibi, the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. He commented on the role which the group played in the latest elections of the Journalists´ Syndicate, the relation between the group and the government, the attitude of the group towards...
Date of source: Thursday, August 7, 2003
The author continues refuting the arguments of people who believe that enforcing the Islamic Shari´a is not for the good of Islam nor for the good of people. Their first argument is that the Shari´a could not be enforced in Islamic countries where other religious groups live, because if the Shari´a...
Date of source: Thursday, July 31, 2003
Some people believe that enforcing the Islamic Shari´a is neither for the good of the religion [of Islam] nor for the good of people. They argue about how the Shari´a could be enforced in Islamic countries where other religious groups live. If the Shari´a is applied to Christians, this means that...
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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.