Date of source: الثلاثاء, شباط (فبراير) 12, 2002
Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, introduced Islam as a way of living and gave rise to the Islamic missionary activity. He was not a leader but a da´iya. He was a pedagogue to a wide group of people. In these two facts lies the greatness of Al-Banna.
Date of source: الأحد, شباط (فبراير) 19, 2006
Majdī Khalīl criticizes Muslim extremists who he believes are leading the Arab and Muslim world to backwardness and preventing them from keeping up with modernization.
Date of source: السبت, كانون اﻷول (ديسمبر) 3, 2005
A new book by prominent thinker, Jamāl al-Bannā, entitled Ikhwānī al-Aqbāt [my Coptic brothers] is to be released soon. The book is expected to cause heated controversy since it tackles Muslim-Christian relations from the author’s point of view.
Date of source: الأربعاء, شباط (فبراير) 8, 2006
Offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.
Ayad Mossad, chairman Stichting Arab-West Understanding, visited AWR to help and discuss the request for NGO status.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 20, 2005
A commentary on the role of religious institutions in driving a wedge between citizens of the same country who belong to different faiths.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 31, 2005
At a time when an Alexandrian church was surrounded by Muslim demonstrators, Pope Shenouda, the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, and Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, the Grand Imām of the Azhar, were having iftār [a fast-breaking meal during the holy Muslim month of Ramadān].
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 23, 2005
Reform of Islamic thought has been a topic for discussion ever since it the idea was initiated by Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abduh and Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī back in the 19th century.
Date of source: الخميس, كانون الثاني (يناير) 12, 2006
Articles that give a good insight into some frequent misunderstandings in Arab-West relations.
A Christian play in Alexandria, advising Christians in a crude way not to convert to Islam, was followed by Muslim demonstrations and violence.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 5, 2005
In his book, Jawāz Imāmat al-Mar’a Lil Rijāl [permissibility of women leading men in prayers], Jamāl al-Bannā argues that it is religiously acceptable for women to lead men in prayers.
Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 10, 2005
Differences of thought within the al-Banna family; from Muslim Brotherhood to European Islam.