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Date of source: Monday, May 27, 2002
A Lebanese scholar issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims to deposit money in American banks and associations because the interest on this money benefits the Israeli existence. Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Azhar University said that this fatwa complied with the Islamic Shari´a. A member...
Date of source: Saturday, April 13, 2002
Robin Wright, the head of diplomatic correspondents in the Los Angeles Times, wrote the book of “The Wrath of Militant Islam” in which she analyzed the September 11 attacks. She wrote that Islam is the most tolerant religion and that both America and Ben Laden distorted the meaning of jihad in...
Date of source: Sunday, April 7, 2002
After his visit to the US, the King of Jordan was convinced that Muslims undermine their civilization by not pointing out the role of Arab Christian and by not reaffirming the tolerance of Arab society through them. History proves that Arab Christians let their civilizational and national bonds win...
Date of source: Friday, March 8, 2002
The article explains the beliefs and history of the Mormon Church, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. Christian clergymen refuted the beliefs of the Mormons and said that they have nothing to do with Christianity. There are about 30 foreign Mormons in Maadi district in Egypt. They asked to be members...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Khalid Dowran is a Muslim Arab living in America. He wrote a book titled “The Seed of Abraham…Towards an Understanding of Islam.” The book caused a wide controversy to the extent that the leader of one of the Islamic groups in Jordan issued a fatwa that charges Dowran of kufr [unbelief]. In the...
Date of source: Thursday, February 28, 2002
Lebanon is a unique example of the coexistence between different religious denominations. The Lebanese media uses the expression of “one living” to point out the coexistence among the different religious denominations. It is better to use this expression in Egyptian instead of “national unity”...
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2002
The incidentals of September 11 showed that there is a lack of mutual trust between America and the Islamic world. The majority of the public opinion in the Islamic world believes that the US is targeting Muslims in its war against terrorism. The American interaction with the issues of the Arabs...
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
Adler addresses the election victory of Hamās, and also the prevalence of Islamic movements across the Middle East. He notes that their prime goals are political, rather than religious, and that they have had a major impact on the status quo of Middle Eastern geopolitics.
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2006
The article reports on a warning issued by the Azhar about the circulation of corrupted Lebanese and Kuwaiti copies of the Qur’ān that were printed with forged permission from the Azhar.
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
The author notes that while reactions to the Danish cartoons have gotten out of hand, the main force behind those reactions was not religious, but politically-motivated groups. He calls on Muslimsnot to blame all Westerners for the cartoons, and for Westerners in kind to not blame all Muslims for...
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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.