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Date of source: Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Two new members have joined the Advisory Board of the RNSAW. They are Dr. Tareq Mitri, the Program Executive for Christian-Muslim Relations and Dialogue of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and Dr. Arne H. Fjeldstad, a Norwegian scholar with a Ph.D. in Internet Communications.
Date of source: Sunday, June 17, 2001
Khalil Abdel-Karim’s book "The formation period in the life of Mohammed" is still causing controversy. The book claims that Islam is only a repetition of what Mohammed learned from earlier religions and Jewish books. The author argues that this is not the case and says he hopes nobody calls Abdel-...
Date of source: Thursday, May 3, 2001
Many men of religion, Islamic scholars and intellectuals refuted Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s opinions. Sheikh Abdel-Monsif Mahmoud said that pilgrimage is not a pagan relic but is basically a declaration of leaving paganism. Adel-Fattah Abdel-Karim said that her demand to allow women to marry more than...
Date of source: Saturday, April 14, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001
Scientific interpretation of the Qur’an and explaining the scientific facts it includes has received wide popularity. Verses from the Qur’an talking about the cosmology of this world were interpreted by non-specialists in the field of astronomy and space, to the extent that some wrong...
Date of source: Sunday, April 15, 2001
Members of the Islamic Research Institute demanded Sheikh Abdel-Met’aal Al-Sa’idi’s book "Religious freedom in Islam," be confiscated. Al-Saiidi wrote in his book that an apostate should not be killed. It was only Prof. Mohammed Ragab Al-Bayoumi who defended the book.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Scholars’ opinions concerning the issue of Muslim men marrying Kitabi women [Christian and Jewish women] range from allowing it with no restrictions to banning it altogether. The writer of the book "Preachers at the gates of hell" wrote that a Kitabi woman can be married to a Muslim man. The...
Date of source: Friday, December 15, 2000
The television serials "Awan Al-Ward" attracted people’s attention because it discussed the relationship between Muslims and Christians which Islam has clearly sketched out. This relation has three dimensions: human, political and a dimension related to creed. Secularists and communists speak a lot...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
[Kitabis: lit.: "people of the Book" i.e., Christians and Jews]
The author believes that the Coptic candidate of the Wafd, Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour, suffered a ridiculous attack in the name of religion by his Muslim opponent who distributed a flyer including some Qur’anic verses, aiming to distract...
Date of source: Sunday, December 3, 2000
Through an imaginary dialogue between the author and two of his friends, he gives the pros and cons to the idea of establishing an Islamic party for the Muslim Brotherhood. While one of the friends is of opinion that announcing such a party will push the country two hundred years back in time, the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 12, 2000
[A Dhimmi: A name used for Christian or a Jewish women who married a Muslim man. The term refers back to the time Christians and Jews were protected under Islamic rule.]
An Egyptian living in the Netherlands, wrote to Aqidati asking whether his Kitabi [person believing in one of the other two "...
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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.