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Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2004
People should not practice Islamic da’wa [call to Islam] unless they meet certain requirements. Those who stand on the podium of the prophet Muhammad [by calling people to embrace Islam] should have certain characteristics that are the essence of religion and not alien to it. If that person [who...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Fundamentalism is a political heresy created by a group of people who want to be distinguished from others. They regard the killing of their opponents as lawful and aim to prevail over weak-mined people with allegedly divine law. Certain foreign bodies have supported and financed this heresy. The...
Date of source: Saturday, August 28, 2004
This year, Arabs and Muslims have a very good opportunity at the Frankfurt International Book Fair. Thousands of European thinkers, scholars, and intellectuals will gather in this fair. The main theme of the book fair is Arab civilization, Arab and Islamic issues and the contributions of Arabs and...
Date of source: Saturday, August 14, 2004
The role of Islam in saving eastern Christianity from annihilation by the Byzantines is the subject of a study made by the Islamic thinker Muhammad Emara. We present this study in answer to those who accuse Islam and Muslims of backwardness, ignorance, violence, and terrorism. Old Christian history...
Date of source: Sunday, August 8, 2004
It is well known that the West [the US and European countries] has recently proposed a project to reform Arab and Islamic countries because those countries supposedly do not apply the principles of democracy. We simply have to read our history and hold on to our religion - only then would we become...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Dr. Murad Hoffman’s conversion to Islam was the end of a long course of study and thought. Hoffman compared Western civilization, ideologies and values on the one hand, and Islam, its philosophy and achievements on the personal and social levels, on the other hand. Hoffman wrote a book entitled “...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
Dr. Maurice Bucaille, a French professor of surgery, was among the leading defenders of Islam in the West. He is the author of the book The Bible, the Qur’an and Science, which is well-known in the West after it has been translated into several languages.
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Goethe was the first to declare that the call for separating the Islamic Orient from the Christian West is false. He alse said that a wise man takes from both sides and considers matters wisely and open-mindedly. Goethe was also leading those who frankly admitted the impact of Arab and Islamic...
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Dr. Shaykh ‘Alī Jum‘ā, Muftī of Egypt, said that Islam has limited polygamy. In a Hadīth reported by Sālim, his father, Ghaylān Ibn Salāma al-Thaqafī, had ten concubines when he embraced Islam. The Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] told him to “chose only four of them” to marry.
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2005
Muftī of the Republic Shaykh ‘Alī Jumca said that dialogue during a recent trip to Germany, which aimed at rectifying the image of Islam in the West, focused on the issues of gender equality, human rights and whether Islam is actually a religion of tolerance.
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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.