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Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
The article is about Tareq Ramadan, the grandson of Sheikh Hassan Al-Banna, who established
the Muslim Brotherhood.
Tareq Ramadan is an intellectual who has enlightened points of
view and the power to convince others. Ramadan leads the Muslims in France through a moderate
Islamic thought. He...
Date of source: Saturday, January 24, 2004
Nobody in Europe
forgets that Tareq Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan Al-Banna, and people in the Islamic world
regard him as a foreigner. So both sides do not trust him, though his objective is to bridge the
gap between Islamic culture and the West.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
The article is the second part of an
overview of a study made by two Saudi researchers in order to introduce it in the second National
Dialogue Forum held in Riyadh a couple of weeks ago. According to the study and its authors, the
religious curricula in Saudi Arabia exaggerate in accusing other...
Date of source: Friday, February 13, 2004
Some political experts are of the opinion
that the revisions of the Gama’a did not change on key issues such as the application of Shari’a,
[the status of] Coptic Christians, multiple-party system and the freedom of opinion and belief.
Those experts claim that the revisions of the group were...
Date of source:
The article is an interview with Dr. Nadia
Mustafa, professor of International Relations, head of the Center for Political Research and head
of the Program for Dialogue between Civilizations at Cairo University. Dr. Mustafa admits our
society’s need for renewing the religious discourse and she...
Date of source: Monday, February 23, 2004
Last week, the TV channel Sat 7, a Christian missionary satellite channel, received tens of
angry messages from Muslim viewers concerning the missionary channel’s program, “Questions in
Faith,” that is directed at Muslims. The program discusses sensitive issues in Islamic fiqh
[jurisprudence]...
Date of source: Saturday, May 22, 2004
“Al-Horriya Al-Deeniya fi Al-Islam” [Religious Freedom in Islam] is the most important book of Sheikh Abdel Mota’al Al-Sa’eedy, a senior sheikh at the Azhar. Sheikh Al-Sa’eedy reached the conclusion that whoever abandons Islam should not be killed. He believes that what has been previously said...
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
The constitution, which provides that there is no discrimination among citizens on basis of religion, sex or color, holds that Islamic sharī‘a is the only source of legislation; while the fiqh [Muslim jurisprudence] rule goes that no non-Muslim would be allowed to rule Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
Dr. Ahmad al
-Tayyib, President of the Azhar University, talks in al-Musawwar about the legality of a woman leading prayer, the Western
demands for a change in the Azhar curricula, and reports that Jihād verses were omitted from the Azhar curricula.
Date of source: Saturday, March 26, 2005
Muhammad Ra’fat
‘Uthmān, the rapporteur of the fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] Research Committee at the Islamic Research Academy, issued a
fatwa rendering halāl [permissible] the use of genetic engineering technologies to determine the sex of the fetus.
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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.