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Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 2004
In his program “Al-Deen wa Al-Hayat” [Religion and Life], Al-Qaradawi declared his deep faith in democracy and advocated the right of the Brotherhood to establish a legitimate party to run for elections.
“The democracy I call for is the democracy of a Muslim society, which has its own fundamentals...
Date of source: Friday, July 23, 2004
Islam believes human beings have been created similar but they have cultural differences . Throughout history, humanity has known many cultures and civilizations. The relationship between Islam and other cultures is based on the law of interaction and cultural exchange and not based on...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 14, 2005
In his last Friday sermon in Doha, Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī indicated that it may be his last this season and revealed that the Qatari TV had erased all his previous speeches.
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2002
Religious laws do not determine or command the formation of a nation in a political sense. The concept of political nation, as understood today, is not mentioned in the Qur’an. After the reign of the Orthodox Caliphs, people who wanted power and authority started using Qur’anic verses to find a...
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2002
The origin of religion is that it connects humanity with divinity and links humankind with the universe. Religion requires certain rituals. Most people perform those rituals as if they are ends, rather than being a means to an end, which is connecting the human to the divine. Religiosity is not...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2002
Gamal Al-Banna is the brother of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. However close he got to the Brotherhood, he did not integrate into their group. He tried to establish a new Islamic strategy that is fit for the 21st century. He claimed that his call for Islamic revival does not evolve in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 29, 2002
The article is a comment on Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s fatwa that allows a non-Muslim wife who converts to Islam to stay with her non-Muslim husband. The author believes that this fatwa is an independent judgment on the part of Sheikh Al-Qaradawi.
He asks Muslim scholars and jurisprudents to give...
Date of source: Saturday, February 2, 2002
The English word “secularism” was incorrectly translated into Arabic as “ilmaniya” while it should be “almaniya.” The first is derived from “ilm” which means “science” and thus indicated a contradiction between religion and science –which is not true. The latter is derived from “alam” which means “...
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
Dr. Nawal Al-Saadawi leads a campaign against male circumcision. The sixth international conference of the Association of the Solidarity of Arab Women, she presides over, showed a scientific film about the circumcision operations on male babies and warned against the dangerous consequences of such...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 3, 2005
When various denominations of Protestant Christianity judaized Christianity they created the root of Christian Zionism that is ruling the US today.
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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.