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Date of source: Friday, May 5, 2006
Preaching on public transport has become a phenomenon in the past few years. “It is very
common in microbuses to
find people giving cassette tapes with religious content to the driver to play
throughout the journey.”
Walīd Ahmad, a university student, says.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Despite
being accepted in the Islamic sharī‘a,
the misyār marriage, in which the
husband and wife do not live together, has always been a
subject of heated controversy among Muslim
scholars.
Date of source: Friday, April 14, 2006
Several Muslim scholars agree on that Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men, despite Sudanese leader Hasan al-Turābī’s controversial statements allowing Muslim women to marry Jewish or Christian men.
Date of source: Friday, April 14, 2006
The author focuses on the problem of fatwas in Islamic countries nowadays and Muslims’ concerns about the future of Islamic jurisprudence.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
Azhar scientists support Egypt’s muftī, Dr. ‘Alī Jum‘a in the face of criticism from some intellectuals concerning his fatwa banning full-figure statues.
Date of source: Thursday, April 13, 2006
Dr. al-Mat‘anī, a
scholar of the Azhar,
the top Sunni organization in the Muslim world, has criticized
Dā‘īya
cAmr Khālid who went to Denmark for dialogue with Danish
figures to explain the genuine
traditions of Islam, terming the initiative "hasty and random."
Date of source: Saturday, October 27, 2001 to Friday, November 2, 2001
A lawyer raised a case to prevent the film "To make God love you"
from being shown because the word "God" in the title was associated with a picture of a young man and two girls in
an improper position. He tried to obtain a fatwa to support his legal case, by sending a complaint with the case...
Date of source: Monday, October 29, 2001
The fatwa concerning the legal position of Muslim-American military men with regard to participating in the American attacks on Afghanistan was issued before the start of the attacks. However, because it reached American-Muslim military men after the war had started it was wrongly understood to...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 6, 2001
[The RNSAW received this text from Dr. Abu Zayd for placement in the RNSAW. The text was first presented during a conference in June in Berlin, Germany]
Since the occupation of Egypt by Bonaparte in 1798 Muslims have had to address the issue of secularization. Some Muslim thinkers believe Islam...
Date of source: Friday, September 28, 2001
Rev. Ikram Lama’i believes that the dilemma the USA is going through has four angles: historical, linguistic, civilizational and theological. He expressed the opinion that for America to get itself out of all these dilemmas, it should reconsider its actions and go back to the real principles of the...
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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.