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Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
Ḥasan Ḥanafī is a Muslim liberal leftist thinker who has been and still is a professor in philosophy at Cairo University since 1988. His vast knowledge on a broad field of philosophy and religion has given him many positions and invitations throughout his career. Ḥanafī's political understanding of...
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2012
Dutch scholar Johannes Jansen contributed an essay – ‘The Religious Roots of Muslim Violence’ – to a 2011 anthology entitled, ‘Terrorism: Ideology, Law, and Policy’. In it he makes the case that violence and terrorism are part and parcel of the Islamic religion, traceable to its root sources at...
Date of source: Sunday, January 29, 2012
Polemics are poison to interfaith relations. Unfortunately the salve of dialogue and cooperation often fails to make as wide an impression, leaving wary religious communities under the assumption of mutual opposition. Polemics reduces ambiguity and nuance, allowing the non-specialist citizen to...
Date of source: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Our November 4 review of Prof. Hans Jansen’s article “Copts” in Hoeiboei, on October 14th led Jansen to write that “Most arguments in defence of Islam are known in The Netherlands for what they are, it makes little sense to repeat these another time. With best wishes, Hans Jansen.” [ In Dutch: De...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Al-Sayid Turkī writes about the achievements of western
orientalists.
Date of source: Sunday, November 19, 2006
In the
following lines, Dr. Muhammad Sakrān denotes the positive
and objective stances of Western intellectuals toward
Islam.
Date of source: Monday, November 13, 2006
The author discusses the
controversy surrounding the appointment of a Jewish-
American academic to the Faculty of Mass Communication
at Cairo University.
Date of source: Thursday, November 9, 2006
The writer is advocating
Arab Muslim scholars to study in the West and address orientalists in intellectual and cultural
seminars.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 7, 2006
The author reviews a book by late thinker Edward
Sa‘īd titled ‘Orientalism,’ in which he affirmed that European Orientalists were not preoccupied
with what they had seen with their own eyes in the East, inasmuch as with the image embedded in their own minds
about it.
Date of source: Friday, August 25, 2006
Despite the time-honored calumnies of the West against Islam, this text notes that the West does
not have
a monolithic stance towards Islam. It quotes three Western testimonies in favor of Islam and
suggests ways that the
Islamic world can work towards improving relations with the West.
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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.