Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
With neo-orientalists’ hectic media campaigns, how could bridges for rational dialogue be built in a way that offers full and authentic understanding of our great Shari’a?
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 2004
Malicious writings against Islam will never stop as long as Islam exists. They look like an organized campaign in which all potentials are gathered to distort the real image of Islam. The authors of such writings present a false image for their people and political leaders. One of those writers is...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Henry Laurens is on his way to take the place of Jack Perck [name is transliterated from Arabic original, we do not know whether the spelling of his name is correct], and Louis Masignon in the specialization and analysis of Arab issues. This young researcher, who is not yet fifty, was recently...
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Goethe was the first to declare that the call for separating the Islamic Orient from the Christian West is false. He alse said that a wise man takes from both sides and considers matters wisely and open-mindedly. Goethe was also leading those who frankly admitted the impact of Arab and Islamic...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2005
Bernard Lewis delivered a speech at Georgetown University that was published later in ‘Foreign Affairs.’ Lewis spoke about Islamic political thought and presented a background about the conceptualization of freedom and justice in the Islamic jurisprudence. He cites the roots of tyranny in the...
Date of source: Sunday, November 24, 2002
Many books and articles incite Westerners to oppose Islam and think that it is a threat to them and to the whole world. There is also a strange persistence on creating hostility between Muslims and the West. The author wonders whether this is a conspiracy and who plans it and why.
Date of source: Sunday, May 25, 2003
Poet Ahmed Abdel-Mo’ti Hegazi criticizes the fact that Maxim Rodinson’s book about the Prophet Muhammad will not be taught at AUC, as it defames the Prophet. He asked people to enjoy literature instead of censoring it.
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: Friday, April 9, 2004
Islam in today’s world is faced with a severe campaign from the West, which boasts of democracy, honesty and openness. But this campaign [against Islam] proves that the principles of this [Western] civilization are nothing but mottoes. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the campaign against...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Bernard Lewis and Muhammad Emara are ideological adversaries; however, they both seem to agree that secularisms is alien to Islam and Muslims, and even more, it contradicts the principles of Islam.