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Date of source: Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The author wonders in this article whether increasing the number of
dā‘iyas are enough to convince the West of the soundness of the Muslim faith.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Islam
respects all other divine religions, even at the time it is being attacked and offended. True Muslims are
those who
believe in other religions and messengers.
Date of source: Saturday, May 20, 2006 to Friday, May 26, 2006
The article deals with the ideologies of a group of Muslims who call themselves "the Qur’ānites" who believe only in the Qur’ān and deny the sunna [the Prophet Muhammad’s tradition] altogether.
Date of source: Friday, May 19, 2006
The
increasing influence of religion in Syrian society is the result of the
failure of the secular regime to implant
its ideology in the minds of the people, member of the secular
Ba‘th Party, Mus‘ab al
-Jindī, says.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
Although it has been approved and is
waiting for implementation, the
unified call for prayer is still controversial. The article discusses the opinions
of Islamic scholars and
experts on the matter.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Terrorism, extremism, sectarian sedition and the rise of the Baha’ī
religion are all the
consequences of the diminishing role of religious institutions and political, economic
and social factors.
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The
author presents a meeting between Ahmad ‘Abd al-
Mu‘ti Hijāzī a famous Egyptian
poet and the muftī in which Hijāzī
talked about the relationship between scholars,
extremism and terrorism. The muftī boasted that
all those who proved to be extremists or terrorists
were not graduates of...
Date of source: Friday, May 12, 2006
The author says that the return of Muslim actresses who retired and have put on the hijāb to acting has sparked controversy on the religious legitimacy of acting while wearing the Muslim headscarf. Two camps of Islamic thinkers differ on the issue.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The article discusses the weekly Friday sermon and the
poor
performance of the preachers, whom many view as insufficient to stand on the minbar [a pulpit inside
the mosque] and deliver sermons to Muslim worshippers.
Date of source: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The author investigates the rampant ultra- religious current and the niqāb phenomenon inside the Fine Arts College in Egypt, starting his 11- page news feature with a photo depicting several female students wearing the niqāb inside the college with a caption reading "this is a photo of...
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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.