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Date of source: Tuesday, September 27, 2005
James Turner Johnson, Professor at Rutgers University, sees that Western and Islamic cultures share common goals. Yet he suggests that the hatred that fills the hearts of Islamist extremists prevents them from establishing any dialogue that could help achieve those goals.
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: Sunday, November 7, 2004
Due to his interest in Islamic sciences and profound search for the essence of Islam, Judge Edwar Ghali Al-Dahabi, former head of State Lawsuits Authority, was granted the first-class medal of science and art during the celebrations of the Birthday of Prophet Muhammad in 1994 to be the first Copt...
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: Friday, October 22, 2004
The West lays responsibility for the current instability at the Muslims’ feet in the East. Western policy has always regarded Islam as an enemy. Such attitude is clear in “The Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel P. Huntington and the “End of History” by Fokumaya.
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
I wish that you can offer me a contemporarily definition of the word “ Jihad,” that doesn’t contradict with Shari’a and meanwhile, takes the current state of affairs into consideration, so that the Egyptians would lead a better life. There are sheikhs who stir up frictions and add fuel to the fire...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Fatwa-making is a very serious task at the time religion has such an uncompetitive influence on human beings. Recently, Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi was harshly criticized for fawas that was incorrectly attributed to him. In the coming interview, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi answers questions about the fiqh [...
Date of source: Monday, September 20, 2004
Islam is facing a vicious campaign after some deviated Muslims joined the enemies of Islam in an alliance tarnishing its [Islam's] image and offending it by all possible means. Muslims are also facing an unfair campaign aiming at picturing them as terrorists whose hearts became void of mercy. All...
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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.