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Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2006
A recently held conference has discussed the idea of establishing an active secular movement in Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, March 2, 2006
The article reports on the launch of the first campaign of its kind by Egyptian intellectuals to set up a secular grassroots movement. Supporters of this movement have accused political parties of failing to take any positive stands against the escalation of religious fundamentalism.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 7, 2006
A recently held conference in Egypt about the establishment of a secularist approach to politics has stated that democracy requires secularism.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 30, 2003
The author explains the term "Islamic secularism." Islam is an absolute religion like all other revealed religions and secularism is a relative philosophy like all other philosophies that are open to change and modification. The adjective "Islamic" gives secularism an Islamic dimension and not the...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 17, 2003
A comparison between Islam and other heavenly religions reveals that Muslims form the majority of the followers of revealed religions. This fact is testified by accredited Western researchers who compared the Islamic steadfastness, and the vitality and revival of Islam in Islamic and non-Islamic...
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 2003
The article reports on a seminar held in the Nasserist Party last week, which invited as its main speaker Dr. Abdel Sabour Shahin, a prominent Muslim preacher. Shahin attacked secularism and its advocates and warned against US intervention in the issue of renewing the Islamic religious discourse....
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2003
The author continues to discuss what he believes is an American attack on Islam which started with the disaster of September 11. He discusses the notion of Western modernity, that is seperation between religion and state. He writes that Gamal Eddin Al-Afghani disclosed its reality 125 ago
Date of source: Tuesday, September 9, 2003
The writer gives some points to illustrate the problems of renewing the religious discourse in the light of the seminar “Practical Methods for Renewing the Religious Discourse” that was held in Paris on August 12 and 13. He also comments on an article written by Gamal Al-Banna in the same respect.
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
Secularists are playing the role of roaming poets to spread a culture that is similar to the culture of Gypsies. They seek to draw the attention of the umma away from its glories past and its attempts to overcome the current crisis in order to get into an absurd theological maze or a new kind of...
Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
Vice-chairman of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs stressed that protecting faith is a sacred national duty in all religions and civilizations world -wide. He pointed out that secularists seeks to overstep religion, the Qur´anic text, and even the Muslim nation in order to pave the way...
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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.