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Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2006
The author of the article, ‘Ādil Jindī, discusses excerpts from speeches by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in which he urged his people to prepare themselves for the return of the Mahdī. Jindī quotes the speaker of the Iranian Majlis, Mahdī Karrubi, as saying that in preparation for the...
Date of source: Friday, August 18, 2006
The article highlights the major defects in the belief of the
Shi‘ah by explaining their origins and the falsehood of the Shī‘ah
heresy.
Date of source: Sunday, August 20, 2006
The author analyses recent conflicts between the West and Islamic regimes, including the recent conflict between Israel and the Hizb Allāh and asserts that ultimately the war is one of many battles to be fought between those who wish to join the modern world and those who think they have an...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 27, 2006
The administrative judiciary’s refusal to file the lawsuit establishing the “Al-Safawīyya Al-Naqshabandīyya,” a Shī‘i organization, provoked controversy. This article links Shī‘i activities in Egypt to Iranian political influences. Religion and politics are never far apart.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
During his reception of the Algerian
ambassador in Tehran, the
secretary general of the Tehran-based Organization of Islamic Culture and
Communications, Mohammad Ali Taskhiri,
has stressed the need for narrowing the gap between Islamic
denominations, indicating that the Muslim nation
[umma]...
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
The article focuses on the most famous cases
in the courts of law regarding the
Bahā’ī faith in Iran, Morocco and Egypt.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author writes about a conference
he attended in
Indonesia that has considered ways for Arab Muslim countries to benefit from the experiments of non
-Arab
Muslim countries and which discussed whether Islamic discourse could be reformed without taking the Arab
environment into account.
Date of source: Sunday, May 7, 2006
David Ignatius explores Iran’s seeming diplo-phobia, which makes it extremely reluctant to negotiate with the West over the issue of nuclear enrichment, and which made it drag its heels over a treaty with Iraq to end the Iran-Iraq war. He argues that for theocratic regimes or groups that claim a...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The author suggests that the
increasing number of suicide operations have not achieved their
objectives and perhaps caused Islamic countries to
fail to gain sympathizers, while at the same time,
gaining the United States allies that used to be sworn enemies
in the past.
Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Iranian police have been ordered to arrest women flouting the Islamic dress code and men with outlandish hairstyles. Under the new campaign, taxi agencies will be held accountable for their passengers’ clothes,
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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.