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Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
In this final installment of a three part series on the life of Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd, Professor Stefan Wild of Bonn University paints a picture of the life and work of the late Egyptian scholar....
Date of source: Thursday, October 23, 2008
’The Copts, Christianity in the Shadows of Pyramids and Minarets’ was the name of a conference that was held at the Evangelical academy in Hofgeismar. During the conference participants discussed Copts’ history in Egypt and the current situation.
Date of source: Sunday, June 11, 2006
Biographical details about Professor Aziz Suryal Atiya, a distinguished scholar and author.
Date of source: Monday, November 5, 2001
The West shares responsibility for reviving the religious trend in the Arabic region in the 1990s and for
the religious groups’ resorting to violence as a means of expressing themselves. What is meant is not the indirect
responsibility of the American policy, which is prejudiced towards Israel...
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
Annemarie Schimmel, who died last year, was a Professor of Islamic studies around the world, and obtained two PhDs, one on Mameluk civilization in Egypt and the other on the history of religions and the position of Islam among divine religions.
Date of source: Sunday, July 30, 2000
An exhibition, under the title of "Al-Andalus and Europe", is inaugurated at the university of Bonne in Germany. It discusses the effects of the Islamic civilization on Western civilization and how the former enriched the European culture and formed the current cultural and scientific western...
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.