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Date of source: Wednesday, January 13, 2021
On December 20, 2020, Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī posted a tweet, blaming a lack of thinking on Muslims’ part for their current circumstances. He quoted French Philosopher René Descartes’s saying “I think; therefore, I am,” but added that he fears that it will be said of Muslims: “You are not because you do...
Date of source: Thursday, May 24, 2018
These are edited remarks from Matthew Anderson's public dissertation defense at Georgetown University on May 22, 2018, presented to Arab-West Report at the request of Cornelis Hulsman who was in attendance.
Date of source: Saturday, September 14, 2002 to Friday, September 20, 2002
One of the main characteristics of the universality of Islam is that it respects the intellect and opens the door of knowledge for Muslims. Human beings could not be God´s successors on earth unless they seek knowledge and make effort to gain knowledge. The knowledge God calls for is a...
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2002
Islam is a religion of both worship and work. It aims at making its followers the makers of life. The prophet advised Muslims not to leave their lives in the hands of God by their idleness, but to work hard. The fact that Islam considers work something very precious shows that Islam is a universal...
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: Saturday, December 8, 2001 to Friday, December 14, 2001
Knowledge is essential to understand religion and religion is useless without it. Most Muslims do not pay much attention to this fact. Islam is a simple religion and therefore it is the religion of the world and humanity. If people stay simple they will find themselves part of the world and...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
Aqidaty had an interview with Dr. Gaber Asfour, the General Secretary of the Supreme Council for Culture. In this interview, he was asked about the criticized conference about women. In addition to this he received questions about creativity, Islamic literature and about the Qur`an being a...
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.