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Date of source: Friday, April 21, 2006
Sudanese politician and prominent Islamist Hasan
al-Turābī explains some recent
controversial statements he made about the permissibility of Muslim
women marrying kitābīs
[People of the Scripture] and the misunderstanding of the word
hijāb in the
Qur’ān, as well as a host of political and...
Date of source: Monday, April 24, 2006
Hasan al-
Turābī’s liberal stand on women’s rights
has angered many Muslim scholars around the world. His
recent controversial fatwas, permitting
marriage between Muslim women and kitābīs
[Reviewer: People of the book: Christians and Jews]
and allowing women to lead men in communal prayers,...
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2006
This article traces the rounds of the conflict between political Islam and the West, the possibilities for leadership of the Islamic world and possible future scenarios, including the victory of Islam, the revival of the Islamic caliphate or the decline and collapse of the Islamic world.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The author slams
Arab officials’ position regarding the region’s critical issues, asserting
that those who are responsible for
working for the good of Arabs are working for themselves only.
19. Al-Turabi: Muslim women can marry Christians, Jews. Women’s testimonies are equal to that of men
Date of source: Sunday, April 9, 2006
Sudanese Islamic leader Dr. Hasan al-
Turābi has recently made known some of his views on a number of controversial Muslim issues, including the
hijāb, marriage between a Muslim woman and a kitābī [Reviewer: belonging to the
book, a Christian or a Jew], women leading prayers and the testimony of...
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2001 to Friday, October 19, 2001
The article gives a general idea about Ayman Al-Zawahry, who is now considered to be more dangerous than Usama Bin Laden. He is behind many terrorist attacks on Egypt. He was not well known until three years ago when he became the first assistant to Bin Laden. He took part in the assassination of...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
In his book "The Islamic threat, myth...or reality?" John Esposito answers the question of whether Islam, after the fall of Communism as a universal power, has become the greatest threat for the West. He represents a methodical prognosis of the political positions in the most important nations...
Date of source: Thursday, October 18, 2001
Dr. Nasr Abu Zayd is upset about the media debate on Islam in the West. Abu Zayd rejects the view that Islam should be held responsible for extremist attacks. The political discourse as reflected in Western media did not mind its language. The media debate on Islam is getting more entrapped in the...
Date of source: Monday, October 1, 2001
The article gives information about the geography and demography of Afghanistan and its economic indicators. This is in addition to a historical background that has to do with the Soviet occupation, the civil war and the Taliban government.
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
Rev. Ikram Lama’i believes that the dilemma the USA is going through has four angles: historical, linguistic, civilizational and theological. He expressed the opinion that for America to get itself out of all these dilemmas, it should reconsider its actions and go back to the real principles of the...
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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.