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Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
From Rasputin to Bin Lādin, religion has always had a role in politics and in political plans. The following text depicts biographies of a number of people whose religious engagements played a role in their political life.
Date of source: Monday, September 25, 2006
This
report, written by several authors, deals with the beginning and
remarkable events in the life of the founder of
the Muslim Brotherhood and its first murshid, Hasan
al-Bannā. He still has a strong ideological
influence on this most prominent political group.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
This article discusses violence in Islam from the Caliph ‘Uthmān Ibn
‘Ufān to
the Muslim Brotherhood. Religion and holy texts have been taken as pretexts to commit
murder in the name of
God and Islam.
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2006
The author criticizes statements made by Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī in
which the Muslim cleric tries to acquit the Muslim Brotherhood of crimes attributed to them by saying that
the only
act of violence the group was involved in was the assassination of judge al-Khāzindār.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 18, 1997
The article is a book review of a book about the Muslim Brothers. A few weeks ago Rifa’at Sa’id attacked the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in el-Ahali because he called for asking for protection money from Coptic Christians who, in the view of the supreme guide, cannot be trusted as loyal...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 17, 1997
The author is very upset about a Christian author writing in a very negative way about Islam. He advises Christians to refrain from writing about Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The
article gives an
overview of Sayyid Qutb’s life, pointing out what developed and changed his course of
thinking.
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006
Ahmad
Khālid sees that the reason behind backwardness in the Arab world, particularly in
Egypt, is the
rigidity and deficiency of religious discourse. He argues that Egypt nowadays suffers from the
absence of
authentic clergy.
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2006 to Friday, September 15, 2006
The recent campaign of detaining a number of Muslim Brotherhood members has raised many
questions about the
possibility of arresting the Supreme Guide of the group, Muhammad Mahdī
‘Ākif, on charges
of endangering national security and inciting the public against the
government.
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
A discussion of tolerance and the relationship between religion and politics in Egypt from the era of Muhammad Ali, through the Nasser and Sadat years and concluding with two choices for the future for Egypt.
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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.