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Date of source: Monday, December 2, 2002
. Islamic thinkers Gamal Al-Banna and Selim Al-Awa believe that the Qur´an does not state any worldly punishment for apostasy and that apostates are punished in the hereafter. They stress that calling for punishment for apostasy is not in accordance with the Qur´anic principle that there is no...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
The Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services organized a seminar on whether the role of religion changed because of globalization. Islamic thinker Selim Al-Awa assured that religion has a role to play at all times. The Jesuit father Henry Boulad said that modernism is a challenge to...
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2002
The article gives the opinions of some Muslim scholars and thinkers on the issue of inter-religious dialogue. Some of them believe the dialogue to be important and necessary, if it aims at promoting the shared values between religions. Others believe it to be a crime and a waste of time, especially...
Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
The author comments on an article by Farid Zakariya published in Newsweek. Zakariya speaks about democracy in the Arab world. He presents a list of American demands directed to some Arab countries concerning education, the press, TV channels and religious leaders. The author believes that the real...
Date of source: Monday, January 14, 2002
The author believes some of the articles that were published in the American Newsweek magazine to be part of an organized attack against Islam in the Western media. The articles dealt with the political, cultural, educational and economical issues in the Islamic and Arab countries. These articles...
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2002
The Christian-Islamic summit held in Rome under the supervision of the Christian Association of Sant´Egidio and the fact that the Vatican Pope called Catholic Christians to fast with Muslims a day of the month of Ramadan, are two situations that showed the sympathy of the Christian West...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 11, 2006
In an interview with Ākhir Sā‘a, Muslim thinker Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā has dismissed the possibility of having a religious state in Egypt for a number reasons.
Date of source: Monday, November 28, 2005
The unprecedented success of the Muslim Brotherhood in the recent parliamentary elections has raised fears among many Copts, including Pope Shenouda III and a number of prominent thinkers.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.
Ayad Mossad, chairman Stichting Arab-West Understanding, visited AWR to help and discuss the request for NGO status.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Could the Union of Muslim Scholars recently established in Ireland be the solution to the conflict of fatwas in the Islamic world? What are the conditions, under which this union was born, and what does its charter say, and who funds it?
These questions are answered by Dr. Muhammad Selim Al-Awa,...
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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.