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Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
About 1,574,000 Muslims (3% of the Italian population) are living in Italy, the majority of which of foreign origin. They constitute 29,2% of the migrant community and only 30% are European Muslims (from Albania, Moldavia, Kosovo), whereas 52,7% are from Africa (37,8% from North Africa).[1] The...
Date of source: Sunday, April 26, 2026
"Apostasie (Ridda - ردة)” in Chems-Eddine Hafiz (ed.), Musulmans En Occident : Pratique Cultuelle Immuable, Présence Adaptée (Paris: Grand Mosque of Paris/Albouraq Publishers, 2025), 94-95.
Summary: This is an English translation of the article on “apostasy” included in Musulmans En Occident :...
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2025
In 2024, the Ministry of the Interior, then led by Gérald Darmanin (member of Renaissance, a political party typically described as liberal and centrist or center-right), commissioned a group of senior officials, more precisely a retired diplomat and a prefect, to conduct in-depth research on...
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This text about Dutch Arabist and scholar of Islam Prof. Dr. Johannes (Hans) G. Jansen (1942-2015) is based on Cornelis Hulsman’s personal experiences with Prof.
Date of source: Thursday, November 30, 2023
Geert Wilders, the controversial Dutch politician known for his extremist views, recently expressed his anger towards the Palestinians, calling for their expulsion from their own country or their relocation to Jordan.
Date of source: Thursday, April 6, 2023
The President of the Evangelical Community in Egypt, Rev. Dr. Andrea Zakī, has spoken on the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and think tanks in the United States of America, expressing that strong bonds still exist between the two. Elsewhere, whilst speaking during a conference on...
Date of source: Thursday, March 23, 2023
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Shaykh Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, has said that although women’s rights and issues have been handled well within the sharīʿa (Muslim law), with explanations duly given and false claims refuted, objections nevertheless appear every now and then.
Date of source: Sunday, March 19, 2023
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Shaykh Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, welcomed a visiting delegation of French journalists and intellectuals, and responded to their questions about the strategy of al-Azhar in confronting intellectual extremism.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
The Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Manpower Committee, Sūlāf Darwīsh, has praised comments made by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, about the misuse of the term ‘freedoms’ by the West. Dr. al-Ṭayyīb had stated that the world was in need of religion to help solve the...
Date of source: Sunday, October 16, 2022
The European Court of Justice’s decision to ban the headscarf in the workplace was not the first measure and it will not be the last. Over the past twenty years, the veil has become a matter of great controversy in Western societies, due to its increasing appearance on the streets of European and...
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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.