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Maḥjūb al-Tijānī is the president of the Sudan Human Rights Organisation in the branch of Cairo and Ḥamūd Fātḥā al-Raḥman, the secretary general of the same organization, discuss the atrocities of the al-Turābī/al-Bashīr regime, and the means by which the Sudanese people are dealing...
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Dr. Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd (10.7.1943–5.7.2010) was an Egyptian Qurʾānic thinker and scholar. He is famous for his contextual interpretations of the Qurʾān, which sparked a lot of controversy amongst fundamentalist Islamic thinkers. In May 1992, Abū Zayd was in a position to get a...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd, a leading Egyptian Qur'anic thinker, passed away in July at the age of 66. He had become a good friend of the Arab West Report over the years. In the first of a series of articles commemorating the life and work of Nasr Abū Zayd, Chief Editor Cornelis Hulsman looks back on...
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....
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Nawal al-
Sa’adawi started defending herself against the
apostasy charges directed at her. She issued a statement in which
she criticized the defamation campaign
launched against her by a weekly paper. It was reported that she backed down
on her decision to confront
Mohammed Hassan al-Alfi,...
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The
court of first instance postponed its verdict on the action brought by Dr. Nasr Hamid
Abu Zeid and his wife
against the Minister of Justice. Abū Zeid wants to show that there is still a marital
relationship between
him and his wife.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 30, 1997
Dr. Nasr
Hamed Abu Zeid laments having
been forced to leave Egypt for the Netherlands after being accused of
apostasy.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
In an interview with al-Ahālī, Egyptian intellectual Dr. Nasr Hāmid Abu Zayd, who left Egypt after Islamists filed a lawsuit against him accusing him of apostasy and forcibly divorcing him form his wife, speaks out on the current stagnant situation of Egyptian society.
Date of source: Monday, July 28, 2003
On the occasion of Dr. Nasr Abu Zeid’s recent visit to Egypt, the author reviews the history of his case, which ended with a court verdict ordering separation between Abu Zeid and his wife.
Date of source: Monday, July 14, 2003
The writer comments on the return of Nasr Abu Zeid from a seven-year exile in The Netherlands. He provides us with some information concerning the background of Dr. Abu Zeid, and the crisis he faced, resulting in leaving 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.