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38. Those forgiving Muslims with whom I lived until the late 1960’s
Date of source: Sunday, November 12, 2006
The author states a number of situations that assert the friendly relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.
10. The world’s confusion between Islamisation and the Islamized [4]
Date of source: Sunday, November 5, 2006
“Apparently all Muslims are not terrorists; however, the truth is that the majority of terrorists are Muslims. We should confess as Muslims that terrorism has become an exclusive Islamic project for Muslim men and women,” ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Rāshid says in al-Sharq al-Awsat. In his fourth and final...
18. There is no reason why the issues of the Shi‘ah and the Muslim Brotherhood should be mixed up
Date of source: Tuesday, October 31, 2006
After Mahmūd ‘Āmir’s attacks on the Shī‘ah, Dr. Ahmad Rāsim al- Nafīs responds, rejecting ‘Āmir’s attacks and suppositions. [AWR reviewer: Dr. Rāsim is a former Muslim Brotherhood member who adopted Shī‘ah beliefs in the mid eighties.]
19. People of every religion claim to have absolute truth and that this should be imposed on others
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
The controversial Islamic writer Jamāl al-Bannā reveals his views on the reasons behind religious violence, ijtihād and Islamic conquests.
14. Egypt without real clergy
Date of source: Saturday, September 16, 2006
Ahmad Khālid sees that the reason behind backwardness in the Arab world, particularly in Egypt, is the rigidity and deficiency of religious discourse. He argues that Egypt nowadays suffers from the absence of authentic clergy.
12. Reviving the Islamic state… reality or fantasy? [6]
Date of source: Friday, September 15, 2006
In this series of articles the author writes about the Islamic caliphate. He argues that it has never been theocratic or despotic, citing writings and books by several orientalists and Europeans. He contrasts the caliphate with the medieval theocracy.
57. The age of tolerance in Egypt: has it come and gone? Part 4 of 4: the route to intolerance and to ‘Bedouinization’
Date of source: Sunday, September 3, 2006
A discussion of tolerance and the relationship between religion and politics in Egypt from the era of Muhammad Ali, through the Nasser and Sadat years and concluding with two choices for the future for Egypt.
14. Qur’anic verses and hadith in the speeches of fundamentalists and modernizers
Date of source: Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Tal‘at Radwān summarizes the recent debate on reforming religious discourse organized by the Cairo Centre for Human Rights.
19. Hard-line tendency in the Azhar
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author presents a meeting between Ahmad ‘Abd al- Mu‘ti Hijāzī a famous Egyptian poet and the muftī in which Hijāzī talked about the relationship between scholars, extremism and terrorism. The muftī boasted that all those who proved to be extremists or terrorists were not graduates of...
17. In the aftermath of the AUC president’s decision to remove Islamic contents from textbooks… The Azhar’s guardianship over the AUC
Date of source: Thursday, May 4, 2006
A few days ago, the president of the American University in Cairo (AUC), David Arnold, decided to remove Islamic and Arabic contents from a number of AUC textbooks, including syllabi in Islamic history, Arabic literature and social sciences. A large number of the university’s staff has...

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