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Date of source: Monday, July 29, 2002
Rafiq Habib and Muhammad Afifi wrote a book on the impacts of Islamic traditions on Christians. Because Christians mixed with Muslims whose Shari´a allows a man to marry more than one wife, some Copts, in the beginning of the 17th century, asked the church to allow them to marry more than one...
Date of source: Saturday, July 20, 2002 to Friday, July 26, 2002
Rose Al-Youssef´s special file for this week covers many different subjects: Terrorists and Islamists living in Britain, Sheikh Amr Khaled´s way of preaching, Islam and politics, the role men of religion can play to build up societies and the issue of hijab in Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 to Saturday, July 13, 2002
The book of "The hejab between the confusion of women and the controversy of scholars" is the first book written by a woman on the issue of the hejab in Islam. The author shed light on the hejab throughout history to let her readers conclude whether it is really an Islamic requirement or not.
Date of source: Monday, July 15, 2002
A member of parliament asked for a modification of the articles about committing adultery in the current Penal Law. He asked for an equal punishment of husbands and wifes and those who killed their unfaithful partners after they had been betrayed [the concept of honor killing]. But the Mufti...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 19, 2002
The issue of the higab was raised forty years ago when three veiled women were involved in the conflict between the Islamic movement and the communist movement. Communists were planning to destroy Islam and all other religions. They saw the appearance of these veiled women on Cairo streets as a...
Date of source: Saturday, June 22, 2002 to Friday, June 28, 2002
Rose El-Youssef created a special file on extremism and terrorism. The file discusses cassette tapes that degrade women in Egyptian society, the fact that some lawyers looking for fame collaborate with extremists, that some scholars oppose scholarly development and that terrorists have turned to...
Date of source: Friday, June 14, 2002
Wearing a veil has been widely criticized so this article looks at its history. It existed before Islam and is found in all of the heavenly religions, but only its use by Muslims causes comment. The veil is a symbol of chastity and purity not a political slogan.
Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2002
Many contradictory fatwas concerning the legality of women carrying out martyrdom operations were issued. Some scholars believe that women are not allowed to explode themselves because the shameful parts of their bodies would be uncovered and also because they would not be accompanied by a mahram...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
An airline company fired an assistant pilot because she came to wear hijab. The assistant pilot filed a lawsuit against the company. She said that she would not neglect committing her duties toward God nor would she renounce her constitutional rights, as wearing hijab is not against the...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
The sense of danger implied in the idea of the inter-civilizational clash pushed a lot of thinkers and politicians to adopt the issue of inter-civilizational dialogue. The world knew other kinds of dialogues, for instance, the dialogue between the North and the South, the Arabic-European dialogue...
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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.