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Date of source: Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Monash University in Melbourne organized a seminar titled “Islam and the West.” Lecturers discussed the topic from political, cultural, social, and philosophical perspectives.
Date of source: Sunday, July 13, 2003
The article presents an interview with his Eminence Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Guzu, mufti of Mount Lebanon. The conversation discusses the relation between Islamic civilization and other civilizations, and how to form a new future for the Islamic nation?
Date of source: Friday, July 11, 2003
The opinions and writings of many Western politicians attack Islam and they all emphasize that all international civilizations will melt in the vessel of the values of the capitalist West and that the fall of communism foreshadows the end of Islam. These allegations are the result of the emergence...
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2003
The author comments on a statement that was given by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs titled “Islam and the West between the Past and the Present.” He believes that France is the homeland of intellectual- and cultural tolerance. Despite the fact that there is an anti-Islamic trend in France,...
Date of source: Friday, June 27, 2003
The author states that the image of Islam in the West, especially in the US, is defamed. The Zionist movement is using all the media outlets it possesses to present a wrong image of Islam. The author interviewed the Mufti of Egypt and the president of the Azhar Inter-Religious Dialogue Committee to...
Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Endowments. He comments on the internal and external challenges of the Islamic nation [umma]. He also comments on the stand of Islam towards the issue of conflicts between civilizations.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 24, 2003
The author discusses the issue of the conflict between civilizations, stating that religions, especially Christianity and Islam, are forced into it as a main element. She uses four arguments to refute the proposition of religions being part of the conflict.
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2003
The author reports that the Open American University (in Cairo), which is an independent academic institution, has a section for Islamic studies. The author wonders what the US has to do with Islam? Does the US want to have preachers that promote what can be called an American Islam? He adds that...
Date of source: Monday, May 26, 2003
The author gives his point of view concerning how to combat the danger of extremist Islamic movements. He believes that the alleged clash between Islam and the West is actually a clash between extremist Islamic groups and the West. He adds that such groups are also in conflict with all...
Date of source: Friday, May 9, 2003
The law of interaction and interchange- not the law of subordination and isolation should dominate the relations between one civilization and another. Islam rejects the practices of negation and conflict, which characterizes the Western civilization’s relation with others in the past and present.
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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.