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Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2007
In his interview with the Egyptian Muftī, Ahmad Hassan tackles recent controversial issues involving the Muftī. He discusses the issuance of false Fatwás, and combats the political intrigue that aims at shaking his status as a Muslim cleric, saying that his status as a cleric is unshakable.
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2007
Islamic democracy is a new lie intended to deceive the world. The Islamic discourse of Muslim scholars and preachers differs according to the target audience. The only solution for the problems of Muslim societies is to separate between religion and the state.
Date of source: Friday, August 20, 2004
We need to change our religious discourse in order to make it more compatible with the comprehensiveness of Islam. But America, in its current attack on Islam, wants to change Islam. We want to change with Islam and they want to change Islam. America’s problem with Islam is neither Islam’s...
Date of source: Friday, February 8, 2008
In the following interview, Muslim thinker Nasr Hāmid Abū Zayd discusses the present Islamic discourse, he refers to the history of the Islamic reformation in the 20th century and points out the current defects. Abū Zayd also tackles the problems of Egyptian society and the Azhar’s relationship...
Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2007
In this article, Gamāl al-Bannā sheds light on the relationship between Islām and secularism.
Date of source: Sunday, January 28, 2007
Who won the battle, those who sought to modernize Islam, or the militants? The author discusses integrating Islam into society in the West, and questions which cultural community will be forced to sacrifice values for the sake of integration.
Date of source: Monday, January 1, 2007
The Ḥijāb is not an obligation in Islām, and it is dangerous to easily classify certain concepts under the known and proven. Islām needs innovating scholars who are able to bring it up to date while maintaining the sense of Sharī‘ah, depending on the reasonable interpretation of the Qur’ān and the...
Date of source: Monday, December 25, 2006
The monopolized religious authority is an echo of the political monopolized authority and the
result of hard financial conditions and regressing social and educational values.
Date of source: Friday, December 15, 2006
A student of higher
studies at the Usūl al-Dīn [Fundamentals of Religion] Faculty, al-Minūfīyah branch
of the
Azhar University, wrote a PhD thesis deeming that the Rose al-Yūsuf periodical and
founder
were Kāfir. In week 50, AWR presented a series of reactions published in
Rose al-
Yūsuf. The...
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
Rose al-Yūsuf continues presenting the
different reactions of men of education and literature about
the Takfīr thesis. The following
lines present the viewpoint of the Egyptian poet Ahmad
‘Abd al-Mu‘tī
Hijāzī defends Rose al-Yūsuf, and criticizes
the Azhar strategy claiming that
Egypt needs...
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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.