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Date of source: Friday, April 8, 2005
Grand
Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, referred a controversial fatwa to the Islamic Research
Institute. This took place after Islamic activist Tāriq Ramadān, (the grandson of Shaykh Hasan al-Bannā, the
founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group), called for the cessation of...
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
Dr. Murad
Wilfried Hofmann converted to Islam as a result of what he witnessed in the Algerian War of Independence. He authored several
books on Islam, including Journey to Makkah and Islam: The Alternative. Many of his books and essays focus on Islam’s place
in the West and, after September 11...
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
The Union of
Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) held its 22nd conference, March 25-28, at Le Bourget, under the title ‘For a special
Islam of France,’ a motto held by many French Islamic Organizations to stand the previously established idea ‘Islam in
France.’
Date of source: Monday, April 4, 2005
Tāriq Ramadān, grandson of late Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Bannā, has urged freezing capital
punishment in Islam like stoning and decapitation.
Ramadān also urged the mobilization of Muslims worldwide to ask
their governments to stop applying the hudoud, alleging the application...
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
The chapters of
insulting Muslim sanctities by Western colonialists are still going on as during the barbaric American attack on the tiny
Iraqi city of Falluja in October and November 2004, the soldiers destroyed most of the city’s mosques and perpetrated crimes
of war and crimes against...
Date of source: Friday, March 25, 2005
In this interview, the Secretary General of the
Orgnization of the Islamic conference, speaks about his personal life, his position, how he was chosen as secretary general,
and the Islamic role of his institution.
Date of source: Friday, March 18, 2005
I would like to examine the issue and the consequences of the states that do not apply the Islamic penal laws, Hudud, for adultery, wine drinking or slandering. Are they Islamic countries or not? This issue explains the significance of executing penalties in Islam, because the malpractice of...
Date of source: Sunday, March 13, 2005
Cairo is hosting the first world conference on Muslim-Christian dialogue between the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue (IIFD) and the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC).
Date of source: Thursday, March 10, 2005
Although it was the Grand Imam of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, who had recommended the appointment of Shaykh cAlī Jumca as the Muftī of the Republic, their squabbles have not ceased. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘a was perceived as violating the unanimous fatwas of the Islamic Research Institute...
Date of source: Monday, February 28, 2005
US police reports have refuted the allegations by expatriate Coptic leaders on the horrid massacre of Husām Armānius, his wife and two daughters, foiling their [expatriate Coptic] attempts to turn a criminal case into a faith-related problem that could be used as a means of political pressure.
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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.