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Date of source: Sunday, June 29, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, the Minister of Endowments. He comments on the internal and external challenges of the Islamic nation [umma]. He also comments on the stand of Islam towards the issue of conflicts between civilizations.
Date of source: Monday, June 30, 2003
The author reports that the Open American University (in Cairo), which is an independent academic institution, has a section for Islamic studies. The author wonders what the US has to do with Islam? Does the US want to have preachers that promote what can be called an American Islam? He adds that...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 30, 2003
The author covers the meetings organized by the Goethe Institute with a number of Arab journalists and specialists in Islamic studies and Arab culture under the title “A Dialogue with the Islamic World.” The meetings discussed the image of Islam in the eyes of the West, especially after September...
Date of source: Friday, May 2, 2003
The writer gives a short and brief analysis of the US attitude towards Islam and its concepts. He presents some historical evidences to support his ideas
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2003
The author discusses Muslims’ perspective of the world in the light of the Qur’an and how they should deal with the challenges the West imposes on them. Muslims believe in diversity and coexistence and are against clashes. Their confrontation with the West does not aim at eradicating the West or...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 15, 2003
The author raises the question of how to establish modern Arab-Islamic states that can face the challenges they are exposed to and concentrates on the Egyptian society. To achieve this modern state, it is either to replace Arab-Islamic values with Western values– which is disastrous, or to create...
Date of source: Thursday, March 6, 2003
Late this month, the executive council of the Islamic Universities Union in Jordan will examine the establishment of the first Islamic university in Europe. The university is meant to be the center of Islamic ideology and culture in Europe and to work on correcting the image of Islam in the West
Date of source: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
One of the main objectives of Islamists is to apply the laws of the Islamic Shari´a. However, they never associate this objective with developing Muslims. The Shari´a and jihad are means not aims in themselves and any group of laws cannot alone change the society. Muslims are in a problem...
Date of source: Friday, February 28, 2003
Suggestions for what Muslims should do concerning the fact that the West perceives Islam as its enemy because it rejects secularism and Western modernism.
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2003
Dr. Youssef Al-Qaradawi says that the form of Islam needed for globalization is forged and thus rejected. He believes that it is better to use the word “non-Muslims” instead of “kufar” in the Islamic religious discourse.
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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.