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Date of source: Tuesday, February 19, 2002
In this article, Hamdi Abdel Raḥmān, one of the eight leaders of the Jamā‘āt al- Islamiya who wrote the four books that renounce most of the ideologies of the Gama?at, speaks about how he came to join the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah, why the Gama?at resorted to violence and why they later renounced...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
In an attempt to promote its recent non-violent approach, al
-Jamā‘ah al-
Islāmīyah has launched a website, which the author says marks a
considerable change in the
ideological stance of the "banned" Islamic group.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
The article is an overview of the answers the leaders of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya gave to four of the 30 questions directed to them concerning the initiative to renounce violence and the ijtihads it is based on.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The administration of the Egyptian prisons department organized some meetings for the leaders of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya imprisoned in Tura prison with members of other Gama´at Islamiya jailed in other prisons. Moreover, more than one thousand prisoners of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya have recently been...
Date of source: Monday, November 14, 2005
The lawyers defending Egyptian Jihād leader’s ‘Abboud al-Zumur and Tāriq al-Zumur have criticized the state’s policy of releasing some detained leaders of Islamic movements while continuing to detain others.
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
The phenomenon of the new preachers who were imposed on us as muftis is worthy of thorough examination. We need to know where those preachers received their training and how many accredited books each of them has authored? We need to know whether a preacher is able to give fatwas. Everybody has the...
Date of source: Sunday, February 13, 2005
In his book Shāhid ‘Ala Waqf al-‘Unf: Tahawwulāt al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya fī Misr [A witness to halting violence: shifts of al- Jamā‘a Islāmīya in Egypt], writer ‘Abd al-Latīf al-Manāwī detects the inspiration of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya.
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2001
The sentences of the members of the Gama’at Al-Islamiyya and Jihad organizations, who issued the initiative to cease violence, will end on October 12. The former head of the State Security said that there is no doubt that the cease-violence initiative contributed to the fact that many of the secret...
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.