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Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
In a study published in Al-Manar [the Minaret] Magazine under the title “the transitions of the Egyptian Islamic movement and its future”, Dr. Kamal Al-Sa’id Habib, a political researcher and one of the founders of the Jihad group, reviews the history of the Islamic movement in Egypt since the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 2004
The problem that Islam and Muslims are facing now is primarily an internal problem. The main problem lies here in our methods in understanding this great religion of freedom, justice and tolerance. Some men of religion conspire with people in power in order justify tyranny. Some men of religion are...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
The early days of Islam did not witness any conflict between religion and state. Islam does not give anyone religious authority over human beings. Islam is not similar to Christian theology that is based on priesthood that granted itself a religious sacredness.
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
The veil is a dress code that is deemed acceptable in appearance and content- whether it was essentially based on religious reasons or not. Every person- man or woman- is free to dress as he pleases and follow whatever fashion he likes. So the question remains: why do we freak out and tend to...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
When I. visited the monastery of the Holy Virgin on the Western Mountain of Dronka in Assiut, I saw at the foot of the mountain a vast area covered with gloomy brushwood. The monastery tried hard to clean up the area and cultivate it with timber-producing woods—watered by the drained water—but the...
Date of source: Saturday, June 26, 2004
Letters and telephone calls showered on Rose Al-Youssef after publishing the article titled “Ladies in the salons of depression” expressing support or rejection of the phenomenon. Remarkably enough, most of those who contacted are the husbands the ladies who host these salons.
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Date of source: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Posters containing religious materials are covering all the walls, doors and even the administrative building of the Girls Faculty [ a faculty that accept female students only] affiliated to the Ain Shams University. The Faculty’s professors know very well that the students embrace extremist...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
Dr. Ahmed Bassam Sa’I, a Syrian scholar and the head of Oxford Academy for Higher Education applied a new approach in interpreting the Holy Qur’an that reveals its miraculous nature. Asharq Al-Awsat met with Dr. Sa’i during his visit to Cairo. AWR presents some of the questions Asharq Al-Awsat...
Date of source: Sunday, June 27, 2004
Watani International met with the Grand Mufti of the Republic, Dr. Ali Goma’a, during his visit to London in which he headed a delegation comprising Dr. Muhammad Abu Lila, Dr. Gaffar Abdel Salam and Dr. Zaghloul Al-Naggar. The objective of the visit, as the Grand Mufti stated during a seminar held...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
In spite of the large presence at the discussion of the dissertation of Dr. Nabil Luqa Bebawi on the “Rights and duties of non-Muslims in Islamic states, the mufti Dr. Ali Goma’a missed an important point. Dr. Bebawi said that jizya was not imposed on all non-Muslims in all times, confirming that...
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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.