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Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
The American administration attributes terrorism to culture and faith—especially Islamic faith. The lack of terrorist events during a long period of time in the Islamic culture’s history is evidence that the Islamic culture is not a reason for the terrorism that is currently taking place. So if...
Date of source: Saturday, April 10, 2004
The late William Soliman Qilada played a role in his generation of the 1940s and the 1950s. His achievements include a historiography for the State Council and important studies on the history of civil law in Egypt. He also wrote about the Egyptian experience of national unity in “Muslims and...
Date of source: Sunday, April 4, 2004
A criticism of Farida Al-Naqash’s article in Al-Ahali newspaper on “Renewing religious thought.” Farida Al-Naqash wrote a review about a book of Iqbal Baraka who argued that the veil is not a religious duty. The writer stresses that those who believe that the veil is not a religious obligation are...
Date of source: Saturday, April 10, 2004
Arab and foreign commentators these days have been concerned with a lecture given by Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In his lecture, Carey discussed what he considered to be internal problems of Islam. The new atmosphere in the United States and Europe against Islam and Muslims [and...
Date of source: Friday, April 9, 2004
Until when will we still be talking about Islam and the West and the necessity to correct the image and the notions [about Islam and the Middle East]? [Until when], while we never do what is required?!
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 13, 2004
We could of course blame the West for the escalating racism against Muslims in Europe and throw all the responsibility on them, but we would be deceiving ourselves. We could say that there has been no real effort to correct the negative “terrorist” image that is sticking to Muslims. This image is a...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Scholars agree that what religion asks of women is to cover all their body except their face and hands. The dress women should wear should not be tight on their body and should not be transparent. This is the dress code that we all agree on today. The Qur’anic verses concerning women’s dress do not...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The religious, political and social covers are interwoven into a thick cover from three layers. The religious cover gives the political cover its legitimacy, and the political cover uses the religious cover to strengthen its base. The threat of the cover is that it could burst one day, if the...
Date of source: Friday, April 2, 2004
All followers of other religions were treated with tolerance under Islam since the era of the Rashidun [Orthodox] Caliphs. Islam did not neglect the followers of other religions and the Islamic civilization did not distinguish between a Muslim and a non-Muslim. Jews enjoyed all rights 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.