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Date of source: Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Dr. Yāsir Yousuf Gabriel has commented on an article by Kamāl Gabriel criticizing the Church’s deteriorating performance. The author, Kamāl Zākhir Mousa, explains the differences between the handling of criticism in both the article and the comment.
Date of source: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Radical Islamists have not only settled for censorship in their fight against intellectuals, but have issued fatwas, sentencing to death thinkers with whom they disagree. Intellectuals across the Muslim world have been attacked or assassinated in accordance with these fatwas.
Date of source: Saturday, November 13, 2004
In previous issues I have focused on the “must-know religious information” and the consequent do’s and don’ts which if violated would, according to jurisprudential conditions, lead to apostasy, punishable by death if attempts to secure repentance ended up in failure.
We have learnt that this rule...
Date of source: Monday, October 18, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center has issued a press release attacking the Azhar and its Grand Imam as the head of the most powerful religious institution in the Muslim world.
The brazen release came in direct response to statements made by Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai Al-...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Hisba [Refers to the right of a Muslim to defend public morality. Suing on behalf of religion] Takfir lawsuits [i.e. lawsuits in which the complainant accuse other of unbelief] spread on a wide-scale in Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan and Lebanon. The most famous lawsuits among these were filed against Dr....
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2004
Indeed, not all Muslims are terrorists but regrettably most terrorists around the world are Muslims. [Muslims] have a bad record. Does that not say something about ourselves and our societies and culture? This is a very harsh situation. What we have to do is to acknowledge those acts and not deny...
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
[The title is a play on words of the name of the Muslim Group of Takfir and Higra] We have to give up our useless approaches in dealing with the world. We have to adopt an approach that is based on tafkir [thinking] and not on takfir [accusation of unbelief]. We only have to count that number of...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
This insider view about the Muslim Brotherhood’s game of interests comes from their lawyer’s book and his experiences with them. In his account, Muntasir al-Zayyāt believes that President Sādāt released the imprisoned Brotherhood members and allowed them to the political space to counterbalance the...
Date of source: Friday, July 19, 2002
The article gives a brief overview of some extremist books banned by the Azhar - which shows the role of the Azhar in resisting extremism. Some of these books formed a major reference for the Gama’at Al-Islamiya and Takfir groups [that accuse people of apostasy from Islam].
Date of source: Friday, June 28, 2002
The editor-in-chief of Al-Mussawar met with the leaders of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya imprisoned in Wadi Al-Natrun prison. The meeting focused on the initiative to stop violence and the group’s ideological revisions. The leaders re-emphasized that the initiative to stop violence is final and that they...
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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.