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Date of source: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Love is an endless debate, deceptively simple yet deeply complex. Many discussions are circulating about the nature of love, probing questions like: can we commit ourselves and make choices? Who do we fall in love with and whom do we avoid? Can we create a “book” of prohibitions for ourselves and...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Professor of Islamic Thought and Philosophy at al-Azhar University Āmna Nuṣayr has sparked a heated debate on social media after stating that nothing in Islam prevents a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim man.
Date of source: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Zainab Abd al-Allāh comments on an article that promoted the marriage of Muslim women to Christian males. She cites the views of some Muslim scholars on this issue.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2006
A number of Muslim scholars have urged the Azhar’ s Islamic Research Academy to refute the recent controversial fatwas of the Sudanese spiritual leader, Dr. Hasan al- Turābī.
Date of source: Friday, April 14, 2006
Several Muslim scholars agree on that Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men, despite Sudanese leader Hasan al-Turābī’s controversial statements allowing Muslim women to marry Jewish or Christian men.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The writer gives an overview of a book titled: [Objective views on the fatwa of a wife becoming a Muslim unlike her husband… Should they be separated?] The book is written by Islamic intellectual Dr. Abdel ‘Azim Al-Mata´ni. He refuses the fatwa of Sheikh Al-Qaradawi that allows a woman who...
Date of source: Friday, May 4, 2001
Muslims are not allowed to marry polytheists and atheists. The only requirement for marrying Kitabi [Christian and Jewish] women is they be virtuous. If the woman’s background is not virtuous, then a Muslim cannot marry her, for she would have two wrongs, a strayed religion, and lack of virtues. A...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian or a Jewish woman is allowed in Islamic countries while the opposite is not allowed. The author argues that if Muslims consider Christians people of the book, a Christian man should have the right to marry a Muslim woman. However, if they are...
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2000
Shebl says the series of "Awan Al-Ward" led to discussions that Egyptians were in dire need of. Before the disaster of 1967 [in reference to the defeat of the six day war], there were no discussions about the relationship between Muslims and Christians. People were dealing with their companions on...
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.