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Date of source: Friday, January 6, 2006 to Thursday, January 12, 2006
In the article, the author argues that Jewish religious traditions and the Old Testament were strongly influenced by the Egyptian ethical and social code, which preceded Moses by hundreds of years.
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: Wednesday, January 23, 2002
The fact that the Muslim leaders were called caliphs or the Amīr of the believers gave the political authority in Islām a religious and a legal dimension. Islām did not know the meaning of Ummah except in the time of the Prophet. All the Islamic authorities after the time of the Prophet were...
Date of source: Friday, November 24, 2006
This review, in the context of ramifications from the culture minister’s controversial statements on the Ḥijāb, discusses various opinions on whether the Ḥijāb is a religious obligation and how such controversial discussions should be tackled by society, religious and political bodies...
Date of source: Monday, November 6, 2006
Chancellor
Sa‘īd al-‘Ashmāwī complains about the lift of his police protection to
the Ministry of Interior.
Date of source: Sunday, October 15, 2006
The author articulates some basic rules of interfaith dialogue, which he asserts should be followed by all parties.
Date of source: Saturday, September 23, 2006
An Egyptian secular
Muslim living in Italy says that the Pope’s
discourse should be discussed and understood in an objective way, far
from fundamentalism and
violence.
Date of source: Friday, June 30, 2006
The author reviews a book made by Egyptian famous intellectual Sa‘īd ‘Ashmāwī, in which he tackled the hijāb issue and other controversial issues related mainly to Muslims’ clothes.
Date of source: Saturday, June 3, 2006 to Friday, June 9, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf devotes a file to the increasing phenomenon of the hijāb in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
The Muslim Brotherhood’s demonstrations in support of the independence of the Egyptian judiciary have posed many questions over the group’s respect for the current “positive laws,” Mustafa Bayyoumī writes.
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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.