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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...
Date of source: Thursday, August 14, 2003
The article is an interview with the Sheikh of the Azhar. He comments on the Arab Culture Conference, secularism, martyrdom operations, the role of the Islamic Research Institute in supervising religious books and the Azhar missions to Europe and the US.
Date of source: Thursday, August 7, 2003
Dr. Fou´ad Zakariya, a professor of Philosophy, suggested secularism as a substitute for Islamic thinking, stressing that it is the solution for the intellectual rigidity Muslims suffer from. The author approaches a group of Muslim scholars of religion for comments, they all object to this opinion...
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 2003
The author comments on the concept of secularism, which is wrongly understood to be the opposite of religion. He also comments on religion as a factor of peoples’ identities and the negative consequences of mixing religion with nationalism.
Date of source: Saturday, July 12, 2003 to Friday, July 18, 2003
The author gives background about the history and beliefs of Jehovah´s Witnesses, Adventists and Mormons. He comments that these extremist groups try to infiltrate the Egyptian Church. That is why, Pope Shenouda has warned against them more than one.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 17, 2003
A Syrian researcher studying at the Faculty of Dar Al-Ulum, Cairo University, discussed his Ph.D. thesis on May 31. His thesis is titled “The Stand of the Arab Secular Thought Towards the Qur´anic Text.” Dr. Hassan Hanafi and Dr. Muhammad Emara were members of the discussing committee. The...
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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.