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Date of source: Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Islam has gone through prosperous periods during which Islamic scholars practiced Ijtihad. But then six centuries ago, Islam entered the era of “imitation” when Islam became imprisoned in a mold manipulated by political interests and personal interests.
This led to the formation of a barrier...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 8, 2004
It is not acceptable for anyone to practice ijtihad except those who specialize in it. It is not acceptable for anyone to give his or her opinion concerning issues related to the relationship between the nation and its God.
Date of source: Sunday, June 13, 2004
Dr. Saleh Ben Abdel Aziz Ale El-Sheikh, Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, stated that his country is constantly working to deliver “Islam’s moderate message.”
He added that his government suspended a small number of extremist lecturers from preaching at mosques. This came as part of the plan to...
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The Arab and foreign media were shocked by the Iranian Shura Council’s approval of a draft of a new law that gives equal portions of inheritance to men and women.
Shi’ite scholars in Egypt, Lebanon, and other Arab countries confirmed that the new proposed law concerns only inheritance cases where...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Sunni scholar Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi confirmed that there is a long-held difference between Sunna and Shi’a concerning the rights of a wife in inheritance, especially in issues not completely resolved by the Qur’an or the Sunna.
Date of source: Monday, January 6, 2003
Wahhabism does not apply the true Islam. One of the crimes that Wahhabism committed against Arab thinking is that it brought forth a generation of sheikhs who established a form of backward Islam and flooded Muslims with fatwas they made to suit their ideas.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Ancient Muslims knew the right of having a different opinion. Remarkably strange, in our time, some are imposing their opinions and views on us as representing true Islamic creed without having a mandate to speak in the name of Islam. Speaking in the name of Islam is always done with a virtual...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
For four concessive weeks, the issue of prohibiting wearing the hijab in French schools
occupied the Arabic press. Tens of articles have been published as to elucidate Chirac’s decision
from different aspects. On the one hand, few writers believe such decision is a French domestic
subject that...
Date of source: Friday, January 16, 2004
Al-Wafd
reviews the main points of the all-inclusive revisions presented by theGama’a Al-Islamiya and its
eight historical leaders. Before examining to what extent these revisions have contributed to the
support of democratic development, Al-Wafd is providing an objective presentation of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 21, 2004
The article presents the views of Sameh Eid, who once belonged to
the Brotherhood’s younger generation. Eid criticized the ideologies and practices of the Muslim
Brotherhood in his book “Al-Ekhwan al-Muslimun…al-Hader wa al-Mustaqbal…Awraq fi al-Naqd al-Zati”
[The Muslim Brotherhood…The Present...
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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.