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Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article is the second part of an
overview of a study made by two Saudi researchers in order to introduce it in the second National
Dialogue Forum held in Riyadh a couple of weeks ago. According to the study and its authors, the
religious curricula in Saudi Arabia exaggerate in accusing other...
Date of source: Friday, February 6, 2004
The article reports about the current attitudes of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya towards the
issues of democracy, Hedud [Sharia-based penalties and parliamentary council. The article is
based on the latest ideological revision carried out by the Gama’a which were included in the
book “Nahr Al-Zekrayat…...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2004
Some political experts are of the opinion
that the revisions of the Gama’a did not change on key issues such as the application of Shari’a,
[the status of] Coptic Christians, multiple-party system and the freedom of opinion and belief.
Those experts claim that the revisions of the group were...
Date of source: Thursday, February 12, 2004
Pope Shenouda III, the pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the Sea
of Saint Mark, denied the mediation of the church in the divorce cases of Coptic Christians,
reaffirming that everybody is treated the same.
Date of source:
The article is an interview with Dr. Nadia
Mustafa, professor of International Relations, head of the Center for Political Research and head
of the Program for Dialogue between Civilizations at Cairo University. Dr. Mustafa admits our
society’s need for renewing the religious discourse and she...
Date of source: Thursday, February 26, 2004
A new [political] party that rejects Islam and Arabism submitted
its papers last week to the committee of party affairs [affiliated to the Shura Council]. This
party asks for the modification of the Egyptian constitution to remove the Islamic Shari’a as the
primary legislative source of the...
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
Dr. ‘Abd al-Fattāh Idrīs, Professor of Comparative
Jurisprudence at Cairo University, described Islamic sharī‘a [law] as one concerned with
securing the world and its inhabitants. He bases his argument on the presence of specific rulings
on how to punish those who harm humans, animals or the...
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
The latest report released by the U.S. State Department
concerning human rights in the Middle East for year 2003 strongly attacked the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia.
The report is evidence for behind-the-curtain movements to pressure Saudi Arabia to
stop applying a number of Islamic hadds, such as the...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
The initiative of the Brotherhood reveals a deficiency in the way the Brotherhood understands democracy. There is a more obvious deficiency in the way it understands scientific knowledge which we should seek its means under the fundamentals of this true religion [according to the Brotherhood’s...
Date of source: Sunday, December 5, 2004
Dr. Ibrahim has provided positive comments for both sides of this controversial issue. In an article entitled "Reclaiming Democracy ... the Participation of Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian Political Life," published in El Hayat newspaper on Oct. 7, 2004; Dr. Ibrahim noted that the Muslim Brotherhood...
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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.