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Date of source: Thursday, August 21, 2003
The author comments on the attempts of the US to intervene in the domestic affairs of Egypt through Copts.
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2006
The grand muftī of Egypt has issued a fatwa saying that statues are harām, but Egyptian intellectuals have taken an opposing stand, defending the art of sculpture.
Date of source: Thursday, August 7, 2003
Dr. Fou´ad Zakariya, a professor of Philosophy, suggested secularism as a substitute for Islamic thinking, stressing that it is the solution for the intellectual rigidity Muslims suffer from. The author approaches a group of Muslim scholars of religion for comments, they all object to this opinion...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2003
There is a great respect in Egyptian schoolbooks for Christian religion, although there is only little information on its faith and life. There is excellent information on the early history of the Copts in Egypt, but almost no information about the Christian minority after the conquest of Egypt....
Date of source: Monday, January 13, 2003
Quotes from Dr. Muhammad Emara’s writings on the Muslim Brotherhood. He compares between the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic groups. He also gives reasons for his choice not to join the Brotherhood.
Date of source: Saturday, August 6, 2005
The Egyptian Dār al-Iftā’ was established in 1895. The first muftī was the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Hassouna al-Nawāwī and he was followed by Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abdou from 1899 until 1905, when he died.
Date of source: Friday, July 29, 2005
Dr. Muhammad ‘Umāra argues that Muhammad ‘Abduh’s articles, letters, and writings launched a new generation and modernized Arabic writing style. The intellectual press that he led was the banner of reform, through which ‘Abduh’s new conceptual framework was applied.
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005
A hundred years after Imām Muhammad ‘Abduh’s death we are invited once again to think about reform and the limitations of fundamentalist rhetoric.
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2005
After the loss of Palestine to the Jews, the intellectual silence was followed by trials to wake the conscience of the nation. That was visible in Turkey, when the Association of Unity and Advancement revolted against the silence of the Ottoman Sultān.
Date of source: Thursday, May 29, 2008
The following issue presents a number of articles on the increasing tensions between the Arab world and the West, particularly with regards to issues of freedom of expression.
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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.