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Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
By listening to Muhammad Mehdi Akef, the seventh guide of the Islamist organization founded in 1928 by Hassan Al-Banna, one has a feeling of dealing with a personality that is regarded as the "pope" of Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, October 23, 2004
The fatwa of Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, Imam of the mosque of the Spanish town of Fuengirola and mufti of the Islamic community in Spain, allowing husbands to beat their wives triggered a wave of rage and rejection from women’s rights organizations that interpreted the fatwa as a call for...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Sabrina Farouni, a Muslim Italian woman who lives in a small town near the Swiss border, was given a 100-dollar fine for going in public wearing a niqab [a veil that hides all of the head and face] that covers her face completely.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 13, 2004
In this interview Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Azhar, answers questions about Islamic-Christian dialogue, developing the religious discourse, Azhar education, rights of women in Islam and others.
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
Veiled broadcasters banned from appearance on the Egyptian television screen, demanded that Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagi, Minister of Information, cancel the ban thus allowing them to return to work.
Broadcasters also complained of prejudices suffered from Zeynab Sweidan, head of Television, who...
Date of source: Saturday, September 25, 2004
Some days ago and in one of the daily newspapers we read a unique idiom. The idiom reads “the Islamic example of the sexual relation.” Even the sexual relation between a husband and a wife was classified religiously under Islamic concepts.
Why do we insist on adding the word ‘Islamic’ to every...
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 2004
The most respectable artistic magazine in Egypt, Al-Kawakib [The Stars], published an article about the views of the new preacher Amr Khalid on art. Although superficiality of Khalid’s opinions is expected, deception is not accepted. Amr Khaled applied a cunning trick to corrupt the original...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
The Turkish government pulled back the draft law criminalizing adultery and penalizing adulterers with prison. Turkish media outlets, feminine organizations and a number of government officials launched a fierce campaign to drop the proposal. It seems that political and media pressures managed to...
Date of source: Thursday, September 16, 2004
Ali Laban, a member of the parliament belonging to the Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, submitted a question to the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Education and Interior in which he wondered about the government's attitude towards the declaration given by Dr. Farouq Al-Hetami, vice-chairman of...
Date of source: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Fatwa-making is a very serious task at the time religion has such an uncompetitive influence on human beings. Recently, Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi was harshly criticized for fawas that was incorrectly attributed to him. In the coming interview, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi answers questions about the fiqh [...
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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.