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Date of source: Saturday, April 9, 2005
Suddenly, the Islamic songs are competing with rhythmic pop songs on satellite channels. The Islamic song is no longer confined to reciting only. It is full of music; it is computer processed; and it is produced and directed as a professional and contemporary video clip.
3. Carrying out Colin Powell’s initiative: A plan to Americanize the religious discourse of Muslims!
Date of source: Monday, January 13, 2003
The American administration finished the draft of a project called "Developing religious discourse." The project aims for developing religious discourse in Arab countries. The suggested project will be linked with the American aid to Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, August 7, 2004
On June 19, 2004, Al-Ahram Al
-Arabi published an interview with Dr. Nawal. Sa’adawi [See AWR 2004 week 25, art. 6]. I disagree
with many of Dr. Sa’adawi’s views. Many of Dr. Sa’adawi’s writings conflicts with basic aspects
of religion.
Date of source: Saturday, September 11, 2004
Any
attempt to re-read holy texts and present a new opinion is regarded as apostasy and a deviation
from “what is necessarily recognized as part of religion.” According to this rule, thinking of a
new interpretation of religion is penalized with death. I, along with other intellectuals,
offered...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center opened its doors for the thinker Gamal Al-Banna, the author of the
book Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil asr Al-hadith [The responsibility of the failure
of the Islamic State in the modern era], whose banning was recommended by the Islamic Research
Institute....
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
Ten years after the publishing of Al-Banna’s book Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil
asr Al-hadith [The responsibility of the failure of the Islamic State in the modern era], the
Azhar recommended the banning of the book because of the unorthodox ideas included in the book. A
heated...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Many literal works that were recommended to be
banned by the Islamic Research Institute, like “Waleemat A’shab Al-Bahr” [Banquet of seaweeds] by
Haidar Haidar, and most recently Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s “Soqout Al-Imam [the Fall of the Imam], are
humble and modest texts from a literary point-of-view...
Date of source: Sunday, October 17, 2004
The heated
controversy in Egypt over the statements of the writer Usama Anwar Okasha has been escalated. In
a press article, Okasha attacked the Companion of the Prophet Amr Ibn Al-‘As and made some
accusations against him, which some people considered an insult to Amr Ibn Al-‘As.
- See art. 7...
Date of source: Monday, June 14, 2004
Under the pretext of commemorating the twelfth anniversary of Farag Foda’s assassination at the hands of members of Islamic groups, members of the Egyptian Association for Enlightenment, headed by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, launched a fierce attack on the July Revolution and attacked religion [Islam] and...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
The article is an
interview with Dr. Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, former dean of the faculty of Usul Al-Deen [fundamentals
of religion] of the Azhar University and member of Islamic Research Institute. The interview
focuses on the report titled “Renewal of religious discourse” released by the Religious...
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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.