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Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2005
Al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī hosted the
Islamic intellectual Dr. ‘Abd al-Sabour Shāhīn, Professor of Linguistics, Faculty of Dār al-‘Uloum, Cairo
University, in its first intellectual forum [or panel].
Date of source: Saturday, March 19, 2005
The West has always viewed the Middle Eastern mentality as one that does not value precision and, consequently, cannot recognize the facts. While Europeans’ mentalities are naturally inclined to precision, accuracy, and logical thinking even though they may never have studied logic.
Date of source: Saturday, February 5, 2005
The Mecca-based Muslim World League (MWL) held a conference lately to discuss the circumstances facing today’s Muslim world. The recommendations of the conference reflected the [cultural] plague that has infected the Islamic umma [nation] as well as proposals for treating it.
Date of source: Sunday, January 16, 2005
The British courts ordered £ 10.000 compensation for a British Muslim called Muhammad Khān after he was sacked from his job for going on a five-week pilgrimage to Mecca
Date of source: Sunday, October 10, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of the Azhar, formerly Egyptian Mufti , compared the US invasion of Iraq to the liberation of Mecca in an interview with the Al-Hurra channel last week. He explained that US forces came to aid the people of Iraq and rescue them from the tyranny,...
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Friday, January 4, 2002
Some media sources reported that the American authorities asked the Saudi authorities to observe the pilgrimage season this year because it discovered that some terrorists belonging to Al-Qa’ida intended to hold a meeting during this season. The Saudi authorities took this matter into...
Date of source: Saturday, December 29, 2001 to Friday, January 4, 2002
Terrorism starts with words. If these words are religious, they include misinterpreted Qur’anic verses. If they are not about religion, they are about struggle, liberation and the like. There are many verses in the Qur’an speaking about mercy and good morals. Some people, however, avoid such...
Date of source: Saturday, December 22, 2001 to Friday, December 28, 2001
Reforming the religious discourse is a must. Reforming Islamic jurisprudence requires interpretation based on reason not the text, and modernization not traditional ways, so that jurisprudents and Islamic scholars can find in Islam new rules and modern principles to motivate the reason and inspire...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 12, 2001
The Sheikh of the Azhar lost a lot of his supporters because of his latest statement about attacking Israeli civilians. All who saw the massacres committed by the Israelis against the Palestinians rejected his statement. Sheikh Al-Qaradawi believed that his statement was unrelated to reality.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Misunderstanding the nature of the Islamic authority and judging Islam in the light of what happened to Christianity are the two reasons behind misunderstanding the relationship between Islam and secularism. Acknowledging the freedom of belief and thought, refusing the idea of the religious...
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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.