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Date of source: Friday, August 22, 2003
The author comments on the meaning of renewing the Islamic fiqh. He mentions three Muslim scholars as examples on how to renew the fiqh.
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2003
El-Geel, a weekly paper reported that the Sheikh of the Azhar calls the Minister of Culture and officials of the ministry kufar [unbelievers]. The Minister sent the Sheikh of the Azhar a letter asking him about the truth of such news. The Sheikh of the Azhar denied this and asserted he would never...
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2003
The author compares between two approaches in Islam. The first is the imitation approach that simply imitates the salafi ideas in a very traditional way without questioning them. The second is the reasoning approach that gives place to the mind to question everything.
Date of source: Saturday, August 20, 2005
Jamāl al-Bannā is a highly knowledgeable man who stands up in the face of practices aimed at repressing freedom of thought. He is, consequently, targeted by fundamentalists and extremists, and has been rejected by the Muslim Brotherhood, set up by his late elder brother Hasan al-Bannā.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 17, 2005
When freedom of expression does not exist, scholars, who should be coming up with fatwas to making our lives easier, lose the spirit of innovation.
Date of source: Friday, July 29, 2005
Dr. Muhammad ‘Umāra argues that Muhammad ‘Abduh’s articles, letters, and writings launched a new generation and modernized Arabic writing style. The intellectual press that he led was the banner of reform, through which ‘Abduh’s new conceptual framework was applied.
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 2004 to Friday, December 17, 2004
A recent news item said, “Spanish scientists unearth a 14-million-year-old fossil, which, they said, the ascendant of all primates and mankind according to Darwin’s evolution theory.”
Date of source: Saturday, June 1, 2002
[AWR: This is a full text translation of a Dutch text with permission of the author.]
Sociology professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim: “You can beat Saddam Hussein, no doubt. But what you cannot do is prevent a new Saddam Hussein from appearing, a new Bin Laden. As long as there is no democracy, no state...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
The author is criticizing the influence of clerics on the minds of the ordinary people, calling for an end to this clerical domination in order to allow the people to think for themselves, not through a class of theocrats.
Date of source: Friday, January 27, 2006
Labīb suggests that Islamic civilization has remained silent about the institutional structure that should shoulder the responsibility of ensuring that power is not abused. It has also never acknowledged political plurality, and there have been zero efforts to get the people to participate in...
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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.