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Date of source: Monday, January 21, 2002
Dr. Nawal Al-Saadawi leads a campaign against male circumcision. The sixth international conference of the Association of the Solidarity of Arab Women, she presides over, showed a scientific film about the circumcision operations on male babies and warned against the dangerous consequences of such...
Date of source: Friday, January 25, 2002
The Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Waqfs of the Emirates organized a seminar about the niqab to discuss whether it is an Islamic obligation and whether Islam allows women to participate in the different public activities of life.
Date of source: Monday, December 30, 2002
Amr Khaled speaks about the reasons behind his going to London and the doctoral thesis he prepares there. He speaks about his relations with Islamic movements. He refuses to comment on the retreat from wearing the higab by some veiled actresses.
Date of source: Saturday, January 26, 2002
[Rammameen are those who scavenge a living off others.]
Those who embrace political Islam claim that any amendments to their ideology leads to what they call “American Islam.” The establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood marked the beginning of political Islam. The Brotherhood offered America “...
Date of source: Monday, December 30, 2002
The article gives an overview of the history of Wahhabism, how it entered Egypt and its effect on the Egyptian society.
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
Eight members of an organization have been accused of disseminating extremist thoughts based on distorting the Islamic religion and opposing its teachings. These thoughts deny all practices of pilgrimage. They also claim that real fasting should be practiced in the month of Sha’ban instead of the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
Su’louk [plural sa’aleek] is a word that was used - in pre-Islamic times - to describe marginalized people who belonged to an insignificant tribe or an unimportant village.
Some people have created a form of fiqh called Al-Wilaya wa Al-Bara’a [the submission (to a leader (wali), group, ideology,...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 24, 2002
A law student at Cairo University has brought a court action demanding the abolishment of the curricula of the faculty of law claiming that it calls for polytheism and does not conform to Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, January 19, 2002
The Islamic communities need different sources to form the minds and souls of the people. The mass media and the preachers who are aware of the realities of life and the truths of the religion have a very important role to play. The mass media should give opportunity to the scholars and clergymen...
Date of source: Saturday, December 28, 2002
The author refutes a comment opposing his ideas concerning the punishment for apostasy, the rule of "Intentionally denying one of the fundamentals of religion" and the so-called "wars of apostasy."
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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.