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Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 19, 2007
In his article, Dr. Sa‘īd highlights the present Egyptian lack of national concordance. He tries to explain the source of the major disagreement over the Constitution, stating various reasons.
Date of source: الأحد, كانون الثاني (يناير) 14, 2007
Islam is a religion and a state and the two cannot and should not be separated. Separating religion from the political and social system is, in Yāsīn’s opinion, equivalent to rejecting Islām and Islamic doctrine. The Islamic political system is based on religion.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 17, 2006
The author of
the
article argues that interfaith dialogue is not the solution for followers of different religions to overcome
fanaticism,
but rather that co-existence and respecting different beliefs are required.
Date of source: الأحد, آب (اغسطس) 27, 2006
Amin Makram Ebeid discusses the rule of Muhammad Ali, who prepared Egypt for a secular form of democracy, and his successors, and wonders whether the age of tolerance in Muslim-Christian relations ended with the failure of the liberal era.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 19, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Tala´at Abdel Mageed, Professor at the Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University. He comments on the nature of the current religious discourse and its impact on people. He highlighted the difficulty of discussing the issue of the renewal of religious...
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 23, 2005
The early 20th century Islamic reformers had different backgrounds, influences and goals to the secular reformists. The secular reformers inherited the western antagonism to religion. In contrast, the Islamic reformers focused on how to establish a modern nationalist state based on justice.
Date of source: السبت, تموز (يوليو) 23, 2005
The book Al-Islām wa Usoul al-Hukm [Islam and the fundamentals of rule] by ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Rāziq, which was published in 1925, offers a comprehensive analysis arguing that Prophet Muhammad was not a king, and that Islam does not have a system of governance under the banner of belief.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 26, 2006
Khālid Bura‘ī presents a list of banned books in Egypt.
Date of source: السبت, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 28, 2000
This article gives an overview of the religious events that took place in Egypt since the establishment of Rose Al-Youssef 75 years ago and how Rose Al-Youssef handled those events and tried to guide people to the true religion.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 16, 1999
This is the story of the most famous sixteen books which were confiscated throughout this century because of the taboos in our society (on religion, sex, and politics) which stand, like a sword on the neck, in front of everyone who has a certain opinion while the freedom allowed in the Arab world,...
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.