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Date of source: Saturday, November 15, 2003
The Al-Ahram Al-Arabi supplement of November 15 discussed the problems facing Muslim communities in Europe, including Russia, and the United States. These problems include the ready-made accusation of terrorism, discrimination, the need for developing a new Islamic jurisprudence that takes in...
Date of source: Friday, November 7, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Ali Goma’a, the Mufti of Egypt. He commented on many gender-related issues: female genital mutilation, marriage, freedom of women and gender rights. He also gave an idea about his personal life. In addition, he explained the controversial fatwa that allows women...
Date of source: Friday, October 31, 2003
The author of the article reviews types of Islamic discourse among which are the discourse of Islamic moderation, Sufi Islamic discourse and text-based Islamic discourse.
Date of source: Monday, October 27, 2003
The writer discusses the idea of beating wives as punishment in Islamic Shari´a. He quotes many scholars who argue in favor of beating one´s wife. He believes that such arguments are gender biased and have nothing to do with the Qur´an.
Date of source: Monday, October 27, 2003
The Mufti of Egypt, Ali Goma´a, issued a new and strange fatwa that allows women to pray wearing a ballet dancer´s costume. Still, there are conditions for praying with this costume. The room where one is praying should be totally dark. The fatwa triggered the anger of all the members of...
Date of source: Friday, October 24, 2003
Renewing the religious discourse is a complicated issue. First, it is needed to avoid having a gap between the Islamic Shari´a and the needs of the changing life. At the same time, it is one of the issues which the US Administration exploits to pressure Islamic countries.
Date of source: Thursday, October 23, 2003
The tragedy of Salman Rushdi´s book "Satanic Verses,” and the ensuing fatwa to kill Rushdi, has reoccurred in Canada. A young Muslim author, Irshad Mangi, has written a book entitled "The Trouble with Islam." Mangi criticizes Qur´anic verses severely, isolates them from their context, and...
Date of source: Saturday, October 18, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi on the issue of renewing the religious discourse. He comments on the relation between renewal and ijtihad, saying that renewal means not thinking with the minds of our predecessors, but rather arriving at ijtihads for our time.
Date of source: Thursday, October 16, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Abdel-Mo´ti Bayoumi. He comments on ijtihad, secularism and the legality of women issuing fatwas. He also comments on his expectation of being appointed rector of the Azhar University.
Date of source: Thursday, October 9, 2003
The writer comments on the decision of releasing Karam Zuhdi and raises a question: Did Karam Zuhdi sell Aboud Al-Zumor, his master, to the government?
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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.