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Date of source: Sunday, May 30, 2004
Islamic movements represent one perspective on how reform could be brought about. Islamic movements do not monopolize Islam, and are only making suggestions. Islamic political parties have the complete right to present their views and its programs, and leave it up to the people and the citizens to...
Date of source: Thursday, April 21, 2005
A recent initiative by 11 million Sufis in Egypt in support of President Husnī Mubārak has raised questions about the Sufi doctrines in Egypt.
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: Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Religious fatwas are being aired everywhere on both local and satellite channels to the extent that the Muftī of the Republic Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a termed the whole thing as “an unhealthy phenomenon” that is threatening the very well-being of the society.
Date of source: Saturday, March 5, 2005
Sometimes I am carried away by the supposed idea that the Islamists’ scenario succeeds and that Usāma Bin Lāden, or others, are able to get the West, particularly the US, leave the lands of Muslims and ending the rule of the incumbent heads of states. In the eyes of Bin Lāden and his likes, they [...
Date of source: Saturday, February 26, 2005
Many researchers in the history and future of Islamist movements reckon that the September 11 incidents have posed as a turning point in the development of political Islamist movements in the Arab region.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Any state as a political innovation is primarily a state and follows a certain religion secondarily. The misunderstanding of this dichotomy is the prime reason for the emergence of traditional extremism and the active extremists (terrorists) in the Arab region.
Date of source: Monday, February 7, 2005
Has the Saudi international conference on counter-terrorism conformed to the US vision of launching a war on terrorism? Was it really a new important step on the road to combating terrorism inside and outside the Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia].
Date of source: Sunday, January 30, 2005
Al-Ahrām Center for Political & Strategic Studies has recently published a book titled al-Islāmīyīn wa al-Dīmouqrātīyīn “Islamists and Democrats.” The book provides important views on means to merge Islamist mainstreams in Egypt and in the Arab world with the democratic modernization process.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 4, 2005
In an interview with Al-Qahira newspaper, Dr. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Musayyarī, an eminent Muslim scholar, reveals his thoughts on separating religion from government.
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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.