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Date of source: Friday, December 16, 2011
This third and final article on Shaykh Usāmah al-Qūsī focuses on a matter closest to his heart and specialization of study: The sunna of Muhammad, that is, what he said and did outside the recorded testimony of the Qur'ān. Whereas article one provided his life history in pursuit of this knowledge,...
Date of source: Monday, March 9, 2009
The article presents an interview with Safwat Hijāzī discussing different issues such as those about the attacks against da‘iyahs, insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, monopoly, normalization, and organ donation. He was also asked about his opinion on Christian attempts to Christianize Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2007
The author discusses the recent constitutional amendments, and the concept of citizenship that has been stressed therein. He looks back in history on the skewed perceptions of citizenship which may have caused the threat posed to freedom and social peace in Egypt today. He further underlines the...
Date of source: Friday, March 23, 2007
The article states that true Islam does not allow discrimination against Christians, and that any practices contradicting with this fact are non-Islamic.
Date of source: Thursday, October 5, 2006
For the third week, Pope Benedict’s controversial remarks on Islam and
the Prophet
Muhammad have made headlines in Egyptian national and independent newspapers. A number of Muslim
intellectuals devoted their columns to refute claims about the spread of Islam by the sword. Some Muslim
scholars...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2001 to Friday, October 26, 2001
Those who try to create hostility between Islam and the followers of the other religions do not behave in a correct Islamic manner but express a personal inclination and a religious disturbance within their minds. The Qur’an makes it clear that the relationship between Muslims and the followers of...
Date of source: Sunday, November 16, 2003
The article discusses the issue of the Islamic veil in the Western world and how it turned into focus that draws hostility towards Islamic life styles. The author believes that the Western rejection of the veil can be regarded as a part of the trend that rejects foreigners in Europe which is well...
Date of source:
There is a strong relation between Richard Sothorne’s Soura al-Islām fī Uoroubā fī al-‘Usour al-Wousta [Image of Islam in Medieval Europe] and Ibrāhīm al-Qadrī’s Bayn Akhlāqīyyāt al-‘Arab wa Dhhinīyāt al-Gharb [Arab mentalities and Western Thoughts].
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2005 to Friday, July 1, 2005
Those who resist power with Islam have first to know that Islamic rule was a product of a Muslim society raised on the Qur’an for 23 years...
Date of source: Sunday, January 2, 2000
"No compulsion is there in religion" is a rule which Islam has set, respecting other heavenly religions [Judaism and Christianity]. It has even set rules of Shari’a concerning dealing with followers of other heavenly beliefs...
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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.