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Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2021
The first light from the crescent moon determines the start of the lunar month which is of great importance to Islam and other religions. The start of Ramadan and other religious obligations depend on a lunar calendar. It is thus understandable that the new moon has long been a matter of Muslim...
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: Friday, October 12, 2007
Dr. ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī Bayyūmī discusses the thorny issue of Muslim and non-Muslim relations as articulated in the Qur’ān, casting light on the important verse of “No compulsion in religion.”
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
In a series of articles published by al-Ahrām
newspaper, Dr. Ahmad al-
Tayyib, the president of the Azhar University, analyses Pope Benedict
XVI’s speech of September 12,
2006.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2003
The author argues that the concept of jihad does exist in Christianity and Judaism as it exists in Islam. She even tries to give the impression that jihad in the sense of killing and violence is not the basic form of Jihad in Islam while it is as such in Christianity and Judaism.
Date of source: Thursday, September 2, 2004
Some Western thinkers believe that the conflict between Islam and the West is mainly a civilization-related conflict due to the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunna and because Islam obliges Muslims to practice jihad against non-Muslims. That is why the West adopts an attitude of hatred and bigotry...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 20, 1999
Dr. Abd Al-Mo’ti Bayoumi, dean of the Faculty of the Religion’s Origins (’usul el-Din), claimed that the Hegri Calendar is not Islamic. But Dr. Mohammed Ra’fat said that the Muslims are ordered to use the Hegri Calendar because Islam has determined a lot of things according to it.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 25, 1998
Destour published a text of extremists calling for the death of three Coptic businessmen which led to the subsequent closure of the newspaper and a discussion in the Egyptian press on the (limits of the) freedom of the press. In this week’s translation only the text of the statement of the...
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.