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Date of source: Monday, March 24, 2008
Ṭāriq Ḥasan comments on a recent statement from an actor in the Egyptian Tax Authority’s TV commercial campaign in which he said he would not renew his contract for further campaigns because collecting taxes from the poor in order to give them to the state is ḥarām.
Date of source: Sunday, March 2, 2008
A book entitled, ’Al-Hub wa-al-Jins fī-Hayāt al-Nabī’ [Love and Sex in the Prophet’s Life] has caused outrage after it was circulated at the Cairo International Book fair last month.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The issue of Muslims who are recruited into foreign armies and their participation in the wars taking place in Muslim countries is under discussion by the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy.
Date of source: Friday, April 23, 2004
Since the start of this year the Islamic world has seen a number of conferences that focus on the change toward democracy. Democratic reform is the only means for Islamic nations to get out of the historical crisis they are going through.
The two cases of Iraq and Afghanistan have proven that the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2008
In light of the recent decision by the Turkish Parliament to allow women to wear the hijāb at universities, a Turkish women discusses her family’s role in Ataturk’s nation building project and the changing attitudes in Turkey nowadays.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The article talks about the current contest between Islamists and secularists of Turkey over a recent constitutional amendment that has aimed at the removal of the ban on wearing the hijāb in universities.
Date of source: Sunday, February 24, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent comments about the application of Sharī‘ah in Britain have created a massive wave of responses. Here one author who is a Muslim women discusses how Sharī‘ah still governs women and children in family law.
Date of source: Friday, February 15, 2008
The article reports on the bitterly-contested conflict between the government and secular opposition powers in Turkey over a recent constitutional amendment to end the ban on wearing the hijāb in universities.
Date of source: Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled last weekend in favor of 15 Christians who had converted to Islam and later reverted to their original Christianity and were officially accepted in the Church, and wished to claim their legal rights as Christians. While Christian public and human and...
Date of source: Monday, February 4, 2008
The Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit that was filed by the Muslim convert to Christianity, Muhammad Hijāzī and has allowed Bahā’ī’s to leave the religion field empty or write "other" on their identity cards. The Egyptian press reported the two rulings and commented on the increasing...
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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.