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Date of source: Saturday, July 2, 2005
Professor Bruce B. Lawrence, the head of the religions department of the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is the author of the book Islam Beyond Violence, in which he defended the religion many Western writers allege as one that urges believers to be extreme and violent and assault...
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2002
Attacks upon Islam in the Western media is taken as a sign of Western democracy and freedom of expression. The matter has reached a point where the West is distorting the Qur´an through translation. Translations by German Orientalists are partial and not complete. Even some Orientalists who do...
Date of source: Friday, September 27, 2002
The article touches upon the reasons Maxime Rodinson believes are behind the Arab-Islamic civilizational backwardness. It concludes that it is wrong to say that Arabs and Muslims should put their religion and identity aside if they want to be civilized, as there is no specific race or religion that...
Date of source: Sunday, September 15, 2002
The rage against Islam did not start with September 11 but September 11 brought the already existing feelings in the open. Therefore, Muslims have to move from within the Western nations, speak their language and use the logic they understand in order to remove the preconceived ideas and...
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2006
The author of the article comments on a book about the Prophet Muhammad by the Christian writer Nabīl Louqā Bibāwī. He explains that while Christian and Jewish clerics added to their holy books, the Islamic faith remained unchanged.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 4, 2006
While the wave of anti-Islam keeps rising in the West and some associate Islam with terrorism, Karen Armstrong, a British writer who specialized in comparative theology, defends the Muslim faith. She is highly critical of Tony Blair’s decision to support the U.S. war on Iraq.
Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2005
The author argues that Islam knows no violence, terrorism or compulsion and that Egypt’s Christians welcomed the Islamic conquests since they liberated their churches from the Byzantines and returned them to the Christians.
Date of source: Friday, November 4, 2005
Mixing Islamic jihād with terrorism and fighting goes back centuries before the September 11 attacks.
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
Annemarie Schimmel, who died last year, was a Professor of Islamic studies around the world, and obtained two PhDs, one on Mameluk civilization in Egypt and the other on the history of religions and the position of Islam among divine religions.
Date of source: Saturday, October 22, 2005
Translations of the Holy Qur’ān are judged according to the translator, his religion and his attitude towards Islam. The author examines Audrey Robin Rivlin’s translation of the Qur’ān.
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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.