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Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
‘Abd al-Rahmān Hallalī discusses the wane and resurgence of political Islamic movements, arguing that after the 9/11 incidents, it became no longer possible to ignore the Islamist movements, not because of their violence, but rather because extremist Islam can never be handled except with moderate...
Date of source: Saturday, January 28, 2006
Despite the progressive Islamist movements in Turkey and Morocco, liberals are still haunted by the salafī [traditional] experiment of Afghanistan’s oppressive Taliban. Ibrāhīm Gharāyba discusses the concerns of liberals about the Muslim Brotherhood’s political agenda.
Date of source: Friday, January 13, 2006
Bibliotheca Alexandrina is organizing a conference to discuss Islam and the civil state. Arab intellectuals who have conducted research on the topic will be invited.
Date of source: Saturday, January 7, 2006
U.S. political science researchers claim that establishing peace through democracy in the Muslim world is a theory doomed to failure. The author suggests that democratic Islam is now even more of a threat to the West than Bin Lādin.
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2006
Abu Zayd, the Egyptian intellectual who was declared an apostate, claims that Egyptian universities are intellectually stagnant and that modern ways of thought must be introduced.
Date of source: Monday, January 2, 2006
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd, a celebrated modern scholar of Qur’ānic studies, who fled to the Netherlands after the Egyptian courts ordered that he be forcibly divorced from his wife on charges of apostasy, argues for reform of religious thought and an end to corruption.
Date of source: Sunday, December 25, 2005
Yousuf Sidhom, in his final article of the Coptic expatriates conference in Washington, presents excerpts of the papers that carried concepts vital for the future phase of Egypt’s reform.
Date of source: Monday, October 31, 2005
‘Abd al-‘Azīm Ramadān states that an outlawed group is now acting as if it were legitimate, and is imposing itself on the people and the state.
Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Without the right to differ, Nabīl Najīb Salāma argues that there can be no democracy, since variety of opinions, cultures and experiences enriches societies, helping them prosper.
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2004
Shura in the Islamic political thought is the philosophy of political systems, community life and the family. Shura means managing the community life of humans, whether in the general or the personal sense.
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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.