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Date of source: Saturday, August 13, 2005
When the Islamic section at the Louvre Museum was reconstructed in 1980s, only 1300 of its 13000 pieces were displayed. Now, the whole collection will go on display, after the French President, Jacques Chirac, approved a project dedicating a larger part of the museum to Islamic art. Islamic art...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 2, 2005
The presence of Muslims in Western societies is a phenomenon which can not be ignored. In many countries they have grown to be a powerful community, but Muslims, particularly the second and third generations, are now facing the prospect of having to blend into those non-Muslim societies.
Date of source: Sunday, July 3, 2005
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer of Turkey has vetoed an amendment to the country’s new penal code that would reduce penalties for teaching unauthorized courses on the Koran.
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2005
The letter sent by Eric Edelman, former US Ambassador in Turkey, to the Turkish minister of religious affairs, Muhammad Eden, about Turkish anti conversion tactics, opened a hot debate about the protestant encroachment into the society and the dilemma of identity versus benefits of the European...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Population growth of 2.3 %, increasing poverty and a deadly Islamic terror. Dr. Usama el-Baz, political advisor of President Mubarak, expects fundamentalism to disappear in a few years time but Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, political sociologist at the American University in Cairo does not believe this.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 to Saturday, July 13, 2002
The book of "The hejab between the confusion of women and the controversy of scholars" is the first book written by a woman on the issue of the hejab in Islam. The author shed light on the hejab throughout history to let her readers conclude whether it is really an Islamic requirement or not.
Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002
Nova, a major Dutch television program presented on June 13 a number of statements recorded in several Friday sermons in Dutch mosques. The Dutch Daily Trouw reported the TV program, including quotes from the sermons, and followed this up with several other articles. The author gives an overview of...
Date of source: Monday, April 15, 2002
The article gives the impression that the general opinion in Germany is opposed to the building of mosques. Revd. Dr. Wolfram Reiss, a German scholar and pastor who published before in the RNSAW, argued in correspondence with the RNSAW that this view is incorrect.
Date of source: Thursday, March 14, 2002
One of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya is titled “The Illegality of Extremism in Religion and of Charging Muslims With Kufr [unbelief].” In it, the leaders of the Gama´at consider charging Muslims with kufr an illegal act. They cited many Qur´anic verses and hadiths to...
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2002
[Hisba is a term referring to the right of a Muslim to defend public morality and suing on behalf of religion.] The article comments on one of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. The book discusses the concept of hisba. The leaders of the Gama´at admitted that hisba was...
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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.