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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: Saturday, January 11, 2003 to Friday, January 17, 2003
Ijtihad is no longer bringing about new human opinions that consider the conditions and changes of life but is simply studying the opinions of the predecessors and try to discover rules in their work. Those rules have been turned into holy rules without which no ijtihad can be made. Such...
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005 to Friday, June 24, 2005
Public Prosecutor Māhir ‘Abd al-Wāhid ordered the release of 463 persons suspected of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, but retained the custody of 37 others on charges of staging unlicensed marches in several areas in Egypt on May 3, 6 and 14, 2005.
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002 to Friday, January 25, 2002
Amr Khaled has appeared again in the field of da´wa, although the ministry of Awqaf declared that he is not qualified and does not have a permit to work as a da´iya. He chose a number of public mosques and other mosques under construction to restart his activities. The article gives the opinions of...
Date of source: Sunday, February 26, 2006
The author reports on Egypt’s muftī’s statements about the concept of the Mahdī in Islamic belief.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Despite public fears over the unprecedented success of the Muslim Brotherhood in the recent parliamentary elections, member of the Egyptian Writers’ Union (EWU), Dr. Hishām Qāsim, believes that the Egyptian government should reach out to the religious group to involve it in the process of fighting...
41. Muslim Brotherhood were the first to resort to assassination in the name of Islam in modern time
Date of source: Friday, February 10, 2006
The author reviews a book by a Muslim Brotherhood member called Mahmoud al-Sabbāgh. The book, the author says, contains the ideology of the group about killing enemies of Islam, as examples of assassination allowed by the Prophet Muhammad were cited by al-Sabbāgh.
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Many Azhar scholars have rejected female circumcision and even criminalized it based on the notion that the practice has never been a duty or obligation in Islam and there are no texts in the Qur’ān or sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] that encourage it.
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Mahmoud Lutfī ‘Āmir discusses the concept of bay‘a, swearing allegiance, and the head of the Ansār al-Sunna [supporters of the Sunna] association in Damanhour, northern Cairo, defends his decision to express his organization’s bay‘a for President Husnī Mubārak as the Amīr al-Mu’minīn [Prince of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Rif‘at al-Sa‘īd argues that Islam, like any other religion, has experienced a theocracy that was founded by the Prophet Muhammad and ended when he died. He argues that a theocracy now would lead to despotism.
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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.