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Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2003
The author comments on the recent terrorist operation in Riyadh. He believes that it has nothing to do with political opposition to the regime or with the freedom of expression. It is simply terrorism disguised in Islam, as understood by its perpetrators. Those perpetrators are the outcome of a...
Date of source: Thursday, February 20, 2003
The article raises many questions regarding issuing fatwas as many people believe that issuing fatwas is facing troubles and may have reached a crossroads.
Date of source: Sunday, February 16, 2003
An inspector for the Ministry of Endowments gives the opinion that women are religiously allowed to pray and fast during menstruation. He is judged for giving similar “strange” opinions. A professor at the Azhar University says that he is an apostate who should be killed if his apostasy threatens...
Date of source: Saturday, February 15, 2003
Interview with the head of the Azhar Fatwa Committee concerning the work of the committee and some of the controversial fatwas he issued. He also gives his opinion on modern Islamic preachers
Date of source: Saturday, January 25, 2003 to Friday, January 31, 2003
Explanation of the rule "No ijtihad with a text." The author believes that this rule imprisons the mind and forbids bringing about new legislations.
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003 to Friday, January 24, 2003
Ijtihad was a great door to freedom in the dawn of Islam. Each ijtihad should be connected to its age and should put the holy text in the service of the age and not the other way round. However, fiqh scholars laid down rules that made valid ijtihad an impossible task.
Date of source: Friday, September 9, 2005
In an interview with al-Ahrām, Dr. Khālid Abu al-Fadl, President George Bush’s appointee to the Commission on International Religious Freedom, gave his opinions on religious democracy, the secularization of religion and Islamic preaching.
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005 to Friday, July 29, 2005
The book Jawāz Imāmit al-Mar’a [the legality of women leading prayers], by Jamāl al-Banna, raises many questions for the reader.
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005
The book Al-Islām wa Usoul al-Hukm [Islam and the fundamentals of rule] by ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Rāziq, which was published in 1925, offers a comprehensive analysis arguing that Prophet Muhammad was not a king, and that Islam does not have a system of governance under the banner of belief.
Date of source: Saturday, November 20, 2004 to Friday, November 26, 2004
The problem is that everybody is talking about the correct version of Islam without really knowing what correct Islam is, in other words an Islam that goes in line with the manners of our age and the latter’s way of thinking.
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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.