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Cornelis Hulsman was asked to speak about Matthew 25:35-36, where Jesus said “For I was hungry and you gav
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2012
Dutch scholar Johannes Jansen contributed an essay – ‘The Religious Roots of Muslim Violence’ – to a 2011 anthology entitled, ‘Terrorism: Ideology, Law, and Policy’. In it he makes the case that violence and terrorism are part and parcel of the Islamic religion, traceable to its root sources at...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Fully deserving of his many titles, the glorious scholar and professor, Dr. Ahmad ‘Abd al-Rahīm al-Sāyih passed away on July 7, 2011, fully engaged in life at the age of 74. Dr. al-Sāyih died while filming an interview for the revolutionary-born al-Tahrir Television channel, speaking about his...
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Mai Magdy and Esben Justesen worked on this paper on the controversial Islamist Zaghloul al-Najjār.
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2010
This is the second part of a review of the Azhar, which is described as a "sleeping giant." It consists solely of an interview with Shaykh Jamāl Qutb, the former Secretary General of the Azhar fatwá committee.
Qutb says that the Azhar currently needs sound direction and alleges that successive...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
CIDT Intern Hibah Mutāwi‘ interviews the founder of the Islamic Hotline service....
Date of source: Sunday, May 16, 2010
Anba Barnaba, Bishop of Rome, talks to Watani about the Copts in Italy and those in Egypt. He speaks of immigration, integration, discrimination, and the Egyptian nationality for all Copts.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Cornelis Hulsman's farewell speech given at Cairo University in June 2009.
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2010
This article reports on the memorial held by the Middle East Freedom Forum for the late grand shaykh of al-Azhar, Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī. The participants praised the late shaykh’s role in maintaining national unity.
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 2010
The article deals with the position of religion in Egyptian society. The author argues that the three recent incidents of the appointment of the new Grand Imām of al-Azhar, the crisis of “Islamonline,” and the sectarian tension in Matrūh, reflect the importance of religion.
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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.