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Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
The phenomenon of the new preachers who were imposed on us as muftis is worthy of thorough examination. We need to know where those preachers received their training and how many accredited books each of them has authored? We need to know whether a preacher is able to give fatwas. Everybody has the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Salah Shady, one of the prominent Brotherhood leaders wrote, “Hassan Al-Banna [founder of the Muslim Brotherhood] was the good seed for Islamic thought and Sayyed Qutb was the good fruit.” The life of Sayyed Qutb witnessed many conversions and unlimited mysteries.
Qutb knew how to love and how to...
Date of source: Friday, May 7, 2004
Abu Al-Ela Madi denied that the Brotherhood is the source of Al-Wasat [the middle] Party's ideology and program as asserted by the Brotherhood supreme guide. "The Brotherhood is an all-inclusive da'wa-oriented, reform group while we are a civil, political party specialized in politics and political...
Date of source: Friday, May 28, 2004
The British scholar and researcher Montgomery Watt sees that the merits and characteristics of Islam, the Messenger of Islam and the Holy Qur’an give Islam its unique status in comparison with other religions.
The Qur’an is unequaled because it is the direct divine revelation that was not ever...
Date of source: Thursday, June 3, 2004
Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi objected to future Jewish participation in the Islamic-Christian Dialogue Conference that took place in Doha. “We have witnessed a lot of oppression from the Jews,” Al-Qaradawi said, “how could there be a meeting between us while the problem [of Palestine] is still ongoing?...
Date of source: Monday, June 7, 2004
The idea of sending a “caravan” to other countries with the aim of “correcting the image of Muslims and Arabs in the West” seems like an uncivilized and outdated action in today’s world. Today, any event can be aired live via satellite channels, and seen simultaneously in other parts of the world....
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
I was very much astonished when Dr. Ayman Sabri Farag or Abu Gaffar Al-Masry Al-Kandahari told me “During the time of violent incidents in Upper Egypt, I felt very distressed. In his opinion, these incidents ‘tarnish the image of Islam and turn people away from it.’ These incidents do away with...
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2004
In a study published in Al-Manar [the Minaret] Magazine under the title “the transitions of the Egyptian Islamic movement and its future”, Dr. Kamal Al-Sa’id Habib, a political researcher and one of the founders of the Jihad group, reviews the history of the Islamic movement in Egypt since the...
Date of source: Thursday, July 8, 2004
Sheikh Saleh Bin Abdel Aziz Ale [إل ] Al-Sheikh, the Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Awqaf, Da’wa, and Guidance, revealed that some mosque preachers in Saudi Arabia are supporting the ideologies of misled, deviated groups. Addressing a gathering of preachers and imams at the Saudi...
Date of source: Saturday, July 10, 2004
A Saudi fatwa that permits mutilating the bodies of the dead has outraged religious figures, especially those who are involved in the field of Da’wa [Islamic missionary activity]. They unanimously agree that Islam respect humans whether they are alive or dead.
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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.