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Date of source: Thursday, March 11, 2004
The media secretariats in the NDP’s branches in the governorates started discussing the working paper that concerns the development of the religious discourse.
The religious discourse that we need should play a central role in forming our religious conscience, which cannot develop without the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
In a cultural symposium attended by Ahmad Abdel Mo’ti Hegazy in the Kuwaiti Cultural Center, participants discussed the modernizing of the religious discourse. Many controversial issues related to the main subject triggered dialogue and heated answers.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 16, 2004
What is the ultimate religious goal? Is it just prohibiting some kinds of food and drinks? Is it just stipulating some marriage and divorce laws? The answer is no. The ultimate religious goal is for man to learn the great facts that he cannot realize by himself. These facts are what God wants from...
Date of source: Sunday, March 14, 2004
Pope Shenouda III called for the necessity of reinterpreting some of the verses of the Qur’an and the Holy Bible that deal with procreation. He said that he had raised the awareness of preachers and priests that the number of children one breeds is not the gist of the matter. Dr. Muhammad Hamdi...
Date of source: Friday, March 19, 2004
In an interview with his Eminence Dr. Muhammad Al-Mokhtar Muhammad Al-Mahdy, Director General of Shariya [Shari’a-based] NGOs, and professor in Al-Azhar University, talked about many issues of concern to Muslims. Among these issue are the crisis of the Islamic world, the concept of jihad , the...
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
The second meeting of the Conference on Recent [Topics] in Islamic Thought, organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf [Endowments], witnessed a hot debate about the possibility of renewing fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] terminology concerning jihad and international relations. The conference, the...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
In a meeting yesterday with the members of the Rotary Egypt clubs, Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, Egyptian Minister of Awqaf [Religious Endowments], denied any incidence of foreign orders to renew the religious discourse. He confirmed that renewing the religious discourse is an genuine Islamic cause.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
The religious, political and social covers are interwoven into a thick cover from three layers. The religious cover gives the political cover its legitimacy, and the political cover uses the religious cover to strengthen its base. The threat of the cover is that it could burst one day, if the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
We were mistaken to think that religious extremism that attacks creativity faded away in the recent years. In Sheikh Zayed City in Egypt, where the head of the City destroyed two statues decorating its entry after some fundamentalists put pressure on him. For they think that these statues are just...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
A participant in one of the seminars held in the Ibn Khaldoun Center under the title "Renewing the religious discourse." said that Islamic thought needed another Luther " like the prophet." A member of the Center declared that he refuses religiousness based on the sayings of Prophet Muhammad,...
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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.