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Date of source: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
The author argues that obstructing the right to ijtihād [legislating or enacting a law which is not based on Qur’an or the Sunna] is hindering the development of Egypt. He argues that those who despise intellectuals and monopolize facts and ideas in the name of preserving Islam are in fact...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Arab lands have an abundance of natural wealth that has whetted Westerners’ appetites and rendered the east a perennial target for occupation.
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 2004
In less than two months I have heard the talk about the jizya [tax on non-Muslims under a Muslim government] taking place twice from our honorable scholars.
I tried as much as I could to avoid involvement in this thorny issue but finally I realized that the return of this sectarian undertone to...
Date of source: Thursday, November 4, 2004
Scholars got together at the Forum for Islamic Thought that is organized by the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs at the Ministry of Awqaf [religious Endowments]. They discussed many points and stressed that Islam is a form of tolerance God revealed to the world and that it is not in need of...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 2004
The presence of Christian communities in the midst of Islamic society proves that the oppression that Christians faced from era to era at the hands of extremists and bigots was the outcome of local conditions more so than being a consequence of extremist principles [of Islam] or intolerance…”
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
The role of Islam in saving eastern Christianity from annihilation by the Byzantines is the subject of a study made by the Islamic thinker Muhammad Emara. We present this study in answer to those who accuse Islam and Muslims of backwardness, ignorance, violence, and terrorism. Old Christian history...
Date of source: Monday, December 16, 2002
The author criticizes some of the points Tareq Heqi brings up in his letter. She disagrees with him that Copts are the original inhabitants of Egypt and that Arabs existence in Andalus [Spain] was no more than the French occupation of Algeria. She criticizes him for supporting America’s attacks on...
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
The article covers “letters to the editor” commenting on Tareq Heggi’s article "Muslims brought forth a dark sect which is Wahhabism" and Safinaz Kazim’s article "Watch it...Get out of the way, Tareq Heggi is thinking."
Date of source: Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Many non-historians tend to extrapolate backwards when thinking about history. The great Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote it is dangerous to judge the past by the present. We are now living through a period in which there are some who wish to pit religion against religion and allege that co-...
Date of source: Monday, March 15, 2004
Following its policy of stirring up sectarian and ethnic differences, the Ibn Khaldoun Center, which is headed by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, held a symposium last week in which Naguib Gebril and Kamal Boulis spoke. Titled “Egyptianizing Egypt,” Gebril severely attacked Egypt’s relationship to Arabism and...
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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.