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Yūsuf al-Badrī is an Egyptian Islamic preacher, formerly a member of the People’s Assembly and is said to be closely related to the Muslim Brotherhood, although he himself denies this time and again. At the start of the interview, the shaykh says he wants to address to the public that...
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
Ḥasan Ḥanafī is a Muslim liberal leftist thinker who has been and still is a professor in philosophy at Cairo University since 1988. His vast knowledge on a broad field of philosophy and religion has given him many positions and invitations throughout his career. Ḥanafī's political understanding of...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
On March 16 the Supreme Administrative Court passed a ruling allowing Bahā’īs to leave the religion field on their official documents blank. The ruling marks the end of a five year battle on the part of the Bahā’īs but has unfortunately been marred by sectarian events that took place against them a...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Jamāl ‘Abd al-Rahīm writes about the history of Bahā’īs.
Date of source: Thursday, February 21, 2008
The article discusses the emergence of a trend to file lawsuits, in which the plaintiffs demand either official recognition of their belief, as in the case of the Bahā’īs, or the right to convert from one religion to another.
Date of source: Saturday, February 16, 2008
Shaykh Yūsuf al-Badrī describes the Bahā’īs as murtadds who should be imprisoned.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Tāriq Abū al-‘Aynayn responds to an article published in al-Hayāt on January 3, 2008, authored by the Egyptian researcher ‘Amr Hamzāwī, entitled, ‘Transformation in state-society relations in Egypt, whereto?’
Date of source: Sunday, February 10, 2008
The article reports on recent verdict of the Supreme Administrative Court that obliges the Ministry of Interior to officially acknowledge the conversion to Christianity on the identity cards of Christian-born converts to Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, December 2, 2007
The article gives a brief overview of the controversial Islamic thinker Dr. Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd.
Date of source: Thursday, November 15, 2007
On al-Risālah Islamic channel, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Būtī has preached that Westerners are considered as Murtadds because they refused the message of Islam, despite the fact that they have heard about it.
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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.