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In a new book expected to stir controversy, the Jamā‘a Islāmīya in Egypt criticizes the ideology of several fundamentalist movements and their takfīr [the act of accusing someone of unbelief] of regimes and individuals.
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In its recent book “Islam and the challenges of the 21st century,” the Gama?a Islāmīyah critiques the theory that confrontation should take place between Muslims and Christians, and East and the West. The Gama?a responded to those propagating this theory and asked Muslims not to consider any human...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2003
The Egyptian government has recently released 1000 members of the Gama?a Al-Islamiya on the occasion of the anniversary of the October 6 war. Significantly, Karam Zuhdi, leader of the group, and Fou?ad Muhammad Al-Dawalibi and Essam Abdel-Magad, members of the Shura Council of the group, have also...
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Asharq al-Awsat and al-Musawwar interviewed a leader of the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah and asked him about how the Gama?at were established, the conditions in which the initiative of denouncing violence was declared and the reasons behind their ideological reconsideration. Akher Saa interviewed a...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 19, 2002
In this article, Hamdi Abdel Raḥmān, one of the eight leaders of the Jamā‘āt al- Islamiya who wrote the four books that renounce most of the ideologies of the Gama?at, speaks about how he came to join the Gama?at al-Islāmīyah, why the Gama?at resorted to violence and why they later renounced...
Date of source: Friday, November 9, 2001 to Monday, November 12, 2001
The head of the
Ansar
Al-Sharī‘a organization in London stressed that Iran handed Rifa’i Taha, the head of the military wing of
the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah over to Syria and they then handed him over to Egypt. Still, fundamentalist
sources in
Egypt did not confirm the news. From another...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 2, 2003
The article is the last part of the overview the paper started of the book of “Nahr Al-Zikrayat…Al-Muragaat Al-Fiqheia lil Gamaa Al-Islamiya” [The River of Memories…The Juristic Revisions of Al-Gama´a Al-Islamiya]. The overview contains the answers of the leaders of Al-Gama´a Al-Islamiya...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 25, 2003
The article reports on the annual meeting of the Brotherhood International Organization, held in Qatar. Such meeting put forth questions on the role of Qatar, the new trends within the Brotherhood organization, and the American-Brotherhood dialogue. There was a European-Brotherhood dialogue in...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 18, 2003
The article presents five questions and their answers, which were published in the book “Nahr Al-Zikrayat” [The River of Memories] by leaders of Al-Gama´a Al-Islamiya. The questions about the non-violence initiative published in the book were directed to leaders of Al-Gama´a Al-Islamiya...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 4, 2003
The article provides some questions and their answers published in the book of “Nahr Al-Zikrayat” [The river of memories] by leaders of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya. In a previous article, nine questions and their answers were published. The questions published in the book were directed to leaders of the...
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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.