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Date of source: Monday, May 13, 2002
The mother of Khalid Al-Islamboli, who led the operation to assassinate President Sadat, returned to Egypt after spending nine years outside with her other son Muhammad Al-Islamboli, the leader of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 8, 2002
Reconsidering the ideologies of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya on the part of its imprisoned leaders caused divisions within the group. There is a general agreement on renouncing violence. But the controversy lies in the leaders´ declaration to refrain from their previous practices. This is...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 26, 2002
The Egyptian Military Court will hear the 63 members of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya who were charged with killings and armed burglaries before the initiative to denounce violence was declared. The court will hand down its ruling in this case on April 10.
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After more than 20 years of adopting the ideology of violence, the leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya declared that the ideology of violence caused them to commit mistakes that harmed themselves, their religion and their society. Some people raised doubts against this declaration and others...
Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2002
One of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya is titled “The Illegality of Extremism in Religion and of Charging Muslims With Kufr [unbelief].” In it, the leaders of the Gama´at consider charging Muslims with kufr an illegal act. They cited many Qur´anic verses and hadiths to...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Salah Hashim, the founder of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya spoke about the Gama´at since its foundation in Assiut, the role the then governor of Assiut played in relation to the formation of the Gama´at and their disputes with the Muslim Brotherhood. He supports the corrective review of the ideologies of...
Date of source: Saturday, March 2, 2002
The leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya expressed their complete agreement to end the actions to kill. They affirmed that their mistakes in the past came as a result of a false Ijtihad. In this article they explain the legal basis behind their renunciation of violence and reconsideration of old...
Date of source: Thursday, February 14, 2002
The leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya wrote in one of their four recently published books that only the enemies of Egypt benefited from the violence they practiced. Those enemies are Israel, America and secularists. The author rejects placing secularists and Israel in one group. He believes...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2002
Some people believe that one of three things may be the reason behind the imprisoned leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya writing their recent four books: they might have been pressured by the security bodies or that they fear the consequences of the September 11 attacks or that they want to...
Date of source: Monday, February 18, 2002
Montasser Al-Zayyat expressed his satisfaction at the reactions towards the four books. A former state security prosecutor said that it was the first time for the leaders of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya to renounce their ideologies in that explicit way as expressed in the books. One of the lawyers...
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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.