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Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 2004
People should not practice Islamic da’wa [call to Islam] unless they meet certain requirements. Those who stand on the podium of the prophet Muhammad [by calling people to embrace Islam] should have certain characteristics that are the essence of religion and not alien to it. If that person [who...
Date of source: Friday, August 13, 2004
Egyptian religious scholars criticized the term “fundamentalism” and claimed that it is a suspicious term that was invented by the West in order to distort the image of Islam and accuse Islam of being a religion that calls for bigotry, violence and terrorism against non-Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, August 9, 2004
Since September 11th, the US has specified a number of conditions on Azhar imams who visit the Muslim community in Ramadan. Having passed a test in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and Shari’a (Islamic law), the Azhar selects the imams who receive the highest marks to preach to the Muslim community in...
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 2004
The most important issue in the Islamic world today is the relationship between two basic creeds of Islamic fiqh [jurisprudence]: Sunnis and Shiites. With the long history of discord which can lead to conflict, wise Muslim intellectuals believe that if the two parties were able to come closer to...
Date of source: Saturday, July 31, 2004
In his program “Al-Deen wa Al-Hayat” [Religion and Life], Al-Qaradawi declared his deep faith in democracy and advocated the right of the Brotherhood to establish a legitimate party to run for elections.
“The democracy I call for is the democracy of a Muslim society, which has its own fundamentals...
Date of source: Saturday, June 11, 2005
When I used to listen to the Friday sermons some 30 years ago, it was obvious to me that the preachers combined Hanafite-Shaf‘ite teaching. Egypt was characterized by Hanafite teaching at the official level and Shāf‘ite at the popular level.
Date of source: Saturday, June 4, 2005
Conditions of Muslims abroad and religious offenses still represent a serious problem seeking a solution to restore the true image of Islam. This issue is raised in reports of Egyptian embassies in Copenhagen and Paris and sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
In the fiqh [Muslim jurisprudence] the word dhimmī means free non-Muslim subject living in a Muslim country, who in return for paying capital tax, receives protection and safety. As far as the dhimmīs’ beliefs and faiths are concerned, Muslims are required to leave them on their own.
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2005
After the Cairo bombings, one tends to question whether or not random violence is a new trend? To answer, one should first denounce all forms of similar incidents. But one should not forget that the security treatment was shallow and contradictory.
Date of source: Saturday, November 2, 2002
Members of the Creed and Philosophy Committee say that they are not new legislators and have not intentionally denied one of the fundamentals of religion, in an alleged attempt to justify their recommendation concerning the punishment for apostasy. They just want to terrorize anyone who thinks 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.