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Date of source: Monday, September 5, 2005
Preparations for the presidential elections have revealed a new classification inside Egypt’s political Islamic organizations.
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2002
[Hisba is a term referring to the right of a Muslim to defend public morality and suing on behalf of religion.] The article comments on one of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. The book discusses the concept of hisba. The leaders of the Gama´at admitted that hisba was...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Salah Hashim, the founder of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya spoke about the Gama´at since its foundation in Assiut, the role the then governor of Assiut played in relation to the formation of the Gama´at and their disputes with the Muslim Brotherhood. He supports the corrective review of the ideologies of...
Date of source: Saturday, February 9, 2002 to Friday, February 15, 2002
The Gama´at Al-Islamiya organization published a series of books called “The Correction of Concepts Series.” The author wonders whether this correction revolution a real correction and revision, or is it merely a pretense of being weak - with the aim of lying low until they regain their power...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The administration of the Egyptian prisons department organized some meetings for the leaders of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya imprisoned in Tura prison with members of other Gama´at Islamiya jailed in other prisons. Moreover, more than one thousand prisoners of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya have recently been...
Date of source: Friday, June 28, 2002
The editor-in-chief of Al-Mussawar met with the leaders of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya imprisoned in Wadi Al-Natrun prison. The meeting focused on the initiative to stop violence and the group’s ideological revisions. The leaders re-emphasized that the initiative to stop violence is final and that they...
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2001
The sentences of the members of the Gama’at Al-Islamiyya and Jihad organizations, who issued the initiative to cease violence, will end on October 12. The former head of the State Security said that there is no doubt that the cease-violence initiative contributed to the fact that many of the secret...
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 1999
Judicial Assistant of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman said that Rahman’s fatwa was issued and delivered to Gamal Sultan, a representative of the founders of the Reformation Party nine months ago but Sultan kept it away from the founders of that party because he didn’t agree with the fatwa.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 27, 1999
The Ministry of Interior released yesterday 1000 prisoners of the Gama’a Islamiyya who had renounced their terrorist thought. The ministry’s decision is unconnected from any [alleged] deal with terrorists, they said.
Date of source: Saturday, August 29, 1998
Montasser El-Zayat, generally acknowledged as lawyer and spokesman of the radical Gama’at al-Islamiya, explains in an interview the dynamics within the extremist groups. He asks for a dialogue with these groups.
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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.