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Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 2004
Yesterday the founding council of the Muslim World League inaugurated the 38th session of the council in Mecca. Sheikh Abdel Aziz Bin Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia said that Islam is innocent of the accusations directed to it. "It was revealed that those who accuse Islam...
Date of source: Monday, August 30, 2004
The American journalist Sandra Mackey was known in the 1980s for her book on how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia changed from a desert unknown to many into one of the major powers influencing the fate of the world. McKay lived in Saudi Arabia for four years in which she dealt with the authorities there...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 17, 2004
I was provoked by a TV program aired by the Iqraa Channel. The young hostess of this program, who speaks in the same way senior sheikhs do, said that the person who abandons prayer should be killed. Prayer is part of the personal relationship between man and God. If someone gives up prayer, he will...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
In spite of restoring some of her rights regarding going to governmental quarters without a male caretaker accompanying her, selling in shops for women, issuing her ID, the Saudi woman is still struggling to restore many of her rights, such as heritage rights, lost in the whirl of habits and...
Date of source: Sunday, June 5, 2005
Adel Guindy responded to Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim’s article “Islam Can Vote, If We Let It” [art. 5] saying that the article provides a good insight about what Dr. Ibrahim has been repeatedly telling high-level politicians in Washington D.C. and academics and media in the world’s main capitals for...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
The first meeting between the Islamic world, led by Prophet Muhammad, and the Christians was in the 10th year of the Hijra, 631 AD. Prophet Mohammed met the Christians of Najrān in the Medina Mosque where he let them pray and celebrate their Easter holiday.
Date of source: Monday, December 16, 2002
The author criticizes some of the points Tareq Heqi brings up in his letter. She disagrees with him that Copts are the original inhabitants of Egypt and that Arabs existence in Andalus [Spain] was no more than the French occupation of Algeria. She criticizes him for supporting America’s attacks on...
Date of source: Monday, December 9, 2002
The text of a letter from intellectual Tareq Heggi to Saudi Prince Khaled Al-Faysel. Heggi criticizes Wahhabism and argues that he cannot be a member of the Arab Thought Institute because his thoughts are different from the thoughts of most of its members.
Date of source: Monday, December 23, 2002
Voices accusing Wahhabism -the legitimate basis of the Saudi political regime - of being the main source of terrorism increased within US circles. In an attempt to alleviate the pressures of the American media, the Saudi Minister of the Interior accused the Muslim Brotherhood of being the source of...
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2003
The article is an interview with the director of the Aid and Preaching Center in Saudi Arabia. The director speaks about the activities of the center and how effective they are in preaching Islam. He also explains how the center deals with converts to Islam
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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.