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Date of source: الخميس, آذار (مارس) 7, 2002
[Hisba is a term referring to the right of a Muslim to defend public morality and suing on behalf of religion.] The article comments on one of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. The book discusses the concept of hisba. The leaders of the Gama´at admitted that hisba was...
Date of source: الاثنين, آذار (مارس) 4, 2002
The article tackles more than one point related to the Islamic groups. It comments on the book of Ayman Al-Zawahri “Knights Under the Flag of the Prophet” and on Montasser Al-Zayyat´s “Al-Zawahri as I knew him.” It tries to answer the question of why Bin Laden gained great popularity among...
Date of source: الجمعة, شباط (فبراير) 1, 2002
Reforming the religious discourse means neither changing any of the bases of Islam nor being biased towards the group to which the religious discourse is directed. Also it is not only confined to developing the ways of Da´awa. Reforming the religious discourse means reforming the Islamic...
Date of source: الأربعاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 1, 2004
Many Muslims believe that Christians in the West have never given up the idea of the Crusades and missionaries work hand in hand with Western imperialists. The Bishop concludes that the Crusades occurred as a result of ignorance of Christ's teachings and love. The church today views the Crusades as...
Date of source: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 10, 2005
Islam has paid women their due, including participation in politics; the Islamic history is abundant with evidence in this regard. Hence the groundlessness of Western and American claims that Islam prohibits women to partake in the political arena. In this respect, Egyptian scholars stress that...
Date of source: الاثنين, حزيران (يونيو) 13, 2005
Islam stands on belief and sharī‘a. As for the belief, it is not subject to constitutional provisions or parliaments due to its sensitivity on the one hand and because the freedom of worship, a democratic principle that has to do with human rights, is guaranteed on the other.
Date of source: السبت, آب (اغسطس) 3, 2002
The article traces the origin of the slogans of political Islamic groups and comments on them. It shows the difference between jihad and killing and explains the true meaning of “Crusades” and “Zionism” and how political Islamic groups served both of them while claiming to fight against them.
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 19, 2002
This article refutes some religious ideas that are believed to be religious postulates. The callers for the establishment of a religious state always use such purportedly religious postulates to support their argument. The author believes that these postulates are among the reasons behind the...
Date of source: السبت, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2002
Dr. Mahmoud Salam Zanati compiled a study on wearing the hijab and the mixing and segregation of the two sexes in Arab society. He wrote that Arabs during the Jahiliya times and until the Ummayyid period didn’t know of sexual segregation. The obligation of the veil was only applied to the women of...
Date of source: السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 12, 2004
The conservatives and the religious authorities in Qum in Iran are putting all their hopes on the Council for Maintaining the Constitution, whose membership includes eminent Shi’ite references. These Shi’ite references would stand up against reformers’ attack on the Shi’a fiqh or the constants 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.