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Date of source: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The article reports on a decision of the Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy that prevents Christian or Jewish wives, as well as children of a Muslim man, from receiving inheritance from him after his death.
19. Al-Turabi: Muslim women can marry Christians, Jews. Women’s testimonies are equal to that of men
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
Sudanese Islamic leader Dr. Hasan al-
Turābi has recently made known some of his views on a number of controversial Muslim issues, including the
hijāb, marriage between a Muslim woman and a kitābī [Reviewer: belonging to the
book, a Christian or a Jew], women leading prayers and the testimony of...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 2003
The article reports about a 15-year-old young Jewish woman who receives her education at a religious school affiliated to an organization called “Youth of Zion.” She declared herself a Muslim in public and wore the veil.
Date of source: Sunday, November 23, 2003
The author recounts the stories of five Jewish Israelis who converted to Islam, and the difficulties they met after conversion, as they are published in full details in an Israeli newspaper.
Date of source: Sunday, July 28, 2002
It is true that the Torah orders Jews not to intermarry with other peoples. However, Jews did not follow that order. The article gives many examples from the Torah on intermarriage between Jews and other peoples to arrive at the conclusion that contemporary Jews are not the descendants of Jacob and...
Date of source: Friday, June 29, 2001
The head of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom choose Laila Sadat to represent Muslims in the questionable committee. Sadat’s mother is Christian and she herself is married to a Jew. Muslims in America were negatively moved by this choice.
Date of source: Monday, February 5, 2001
The Egyptian parliament discussed changing the law of citizenship allowing the children of Egyptian women, whose non-Egyptian husbands were dead, absent, or who had divorced them, to be Egyptian citizens. The Ministries of Interior and Justice rejected the proposal as it conflicts with the...
Date of source: Monday, February 5, 2001
The Sheikh of the Azhar declared that it is permitted for a Muslim man to marry an Israeli woman because the Qur’an allows marriage between Muslims and people of the book [Christians and Jews]. This kind of marriage, according to the Grand Imam, was permitted only out of necessity and marriage to...
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2000
In an interview with Al-Arabi, Dr. Nasr Farid Wasel, the Mufti of Egypt gave his opinion concerning normalization with Israel, saying explicitly" I am against any co-operation with the enemy". He was also strong in urging for technological support in Muslim countries, in changing and developing...
Date of source: Sunday, April 25, 1999
The author uses Hebrew Scripture to attempt to disprove Jewish ethnic identity. The basis of his claim is the Jewish tradition that a Jew is one born of a Jewish mother; however, he does not take into account when this tradition was started, which is necessarily at a period of time much later than...
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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.