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Date of source: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Let’s quickly look at some quotations from the writings of Sayyed Qutb.
In his book “Al-Islam wa Mushkelat Al-Hadara” [Islam and the dilemmas of civilization], Qutb wrote “A thousand books about Islam, a thousand sermons in mosques and a thousand films about Islam are not enough. Creating a small...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Dr. Samīr Marqus discusses the concept of cultural citizenship and its relation with the current ruckus in the Egyptian political arena about reforming certain articles in the Egyptian constitution.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
A controversial book is released during the Christmas period denouncing Christians as apostates who can legitimately be killed.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2006
‘Ādil al-Dawwī reflects on two recent events
that created uproar in the Egyptian society: the crisis of the anti-Ḥijāb statements made by the
Egyptian minister of culture, and the semi-militaristic parade of Azhar students who belong to the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The author of the article, Dr. Wā’il ‘Azīz, discusses religious freedom versus freedom of expression. He calls on Muslims to acknowledge the achievements of all Muslim scholars and intellectuals, and asserts that no one has the right to issue fatwás of Takfīr against anyone unless they publicly...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Dr. Isaac Fānūs freely spoke his mind about the issues he found important. Dr. Fānūs was critical about ecclesiastical institutions and leadership, including those in his own Coptic Orthodox Church. In this interview religions are described as societal entities that humans have created and...
Date of source: Monday, December 18, 2006
Many of the
issues considered
as belonging to the proven and known in Islām can change according to time and circumstances.
What some
think as protection from foreign danger is really a restriction of development that gives one group of
clergymen the authority to control the beliefs and...
Date of source: Friday, December 15, 2006
A student of higher
studies at the Usūl al-Dīn [Fundamentals of Religion] Faculty, al-Minūfīyah branch
of the
Azhar University, wrote a PhD thesis deeming that the Rose al-Yūsuf periodical and
founder
were Kāfir. In week 50, AWR presented a series of reactions published in
Rose al-
Yūsuf. The...
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
The following
lines review an interview with the Azhar Shaykh Dr. Sayyid
Tantāwī in which the Shaykh
expresses his complete ignorance of the
Takfīr of Rose al-Yūsuf, and asks his interviewer
to refer to other people or
claim a file against the person.
Date of source: Saturday, December 9, 2006 to Friday, December 15, 2006
Rajab al-Murshidī from Rose al- Yūsuf meets three members of the panel of evaluation of the Azhar Takfīr thesis who declare that there were many transgressions and errors in the thesis, and reveal that the panel will not accept the thesis unless its author makes certain revisions.
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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.