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Date of source: Sunday, February 5, 2006
William al-Mirrī presents two different explanations for the growing influence of Islamic movements in the Arab world.
Date of source: Saturday, November 13, 2004
Some of the scholars in the dormant Muslim world are busying themselves with only saying all that is new is Haram [unlawful according to the Islamic shari’a.] In fact, some Muslims still believe that the Internet, satellite channels, women’s perfume are haram, at a time our peers on earth live the...
Date of source: Monday, October 11, 2004
Representatives of the Presbyterian Church and members of various Jewish groups in the United States met on September 29 in New York to discuss the decision of the church to boycott Israel and any organization whose annual donations to Israel exceed one million U.S. dollars. The decision, reached...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
The Islamic Shura concept is similar to Western democracy in that both are based on public opinion, power that is within the hands of the ruler and the monitoring of rulers. Both notions acknowledge the idea of dividing power into three areas; executive authority, legislative authority, and...
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 2004
With the vastness of the Islamic nation due to the Islamic conquests in the era of Omar Ben Al- Khattab, the first Islamic Shura council comprised 70 members of the wisest and most faithful men of the umma [Muslim nation]. In the practical and verbal Sunna, the prophet applied the Qur’anic concept...
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 2004
In his program “Al-Deen wa Al-Hayat” [Religion and Life], Al-Qaradawi declared his deep faith in democracy and advocated the right of the Brotherhood to establish a legitimate party to run for elections.
“The democracy I call for is the democracy of a Muslim society, which has its own fundamentals...
Date of source: Friday, May 13, 2005
I would like to express my gratitude for all the positive feedback by intellectuals in universities, scientific research, political studies and human rights centers on my book "al-Islām Wa al-Dawla al-Madanīya" [Islam and the Civil State].
Date of source: Friday, December 24, 2004
There are four pillars that form the rules for the political system in Islam: freedom, justice, shoura [consultation] and equality. These pillars are necessary for the ruling to be Islamic and without
them or at least one of them, that system should not be called Islamic.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
In
his book Features of Despotism, cAbd al-Rahman al-Kawākibī, who was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1854 and died in Egypt
in 1902, defines despotism as an epithet of a government that has absolute limitless powers that stops at no law and respects
no voice of its people. Kawākibī views that Islam,...
Date of source: Friday, October 1, 2004
There is a substantial difference between Shura and Democracy. This difference is summed up in the fact that divine law is the source of power in Shura while in democracy the source of power lies in the hands of people.
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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.