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Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2007
The article presents an overview of a group calling themselves the Quranists. Dr. Jamāl al-Bannā highlights the group’s stances on certain issues, their history, and what sets them apart from other Muslims.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The article reviews a study performed by the former Azhar professor Dr. Ahmad Subḥī Manṣūr, that tries to prove that Islam does not recognize the concept of Ḥadd al-riddah.
Date of source: Thursday, July 12, 2007
al-Sayyid Yāsīn discusses the impact of what he calls the ‘jurisprudence of backwardness’ on the features of every-day life of Islamic societies. He believes that the impact of such narrow-mindedness in applying the Islamic Sharī‘ah affected almost all socio-political, economic and cultural aspects...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The article is based on an interview with the Islamic thinker Dr. Ahmad Subḥī Manṣūr, the godfather of Qur’ānis in Egypt.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Dr. Aḥmad Subḥī Manṣūr, the leader of the Qur’ānis, calls for removal of the Sunnah from Islam because it was recorded 200 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in a time when injustice, tyranny and immorality were spread amongst people.
18. Dr. Muṣṭafá al-Shak‘ah: Mubarak’s regime is not based on Shurá and we do not accept it
Date of source: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Shaymā’ ‘Abd al-Laṭīf interviewed Dr. Muṣṭafá al-Shak‘ah, member of the Islamic Research Academy, on Islamic-related issues such as his opinion on the recent controversial Fatwás, the role of the academy in censoring books, and the recent calls to purify religious books from weak Ḥadīths.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Islamic writer Jamal al-Banna states that it has been quite common for Christians and Jews to convert to Islam to avoid persecution and then leave the religion when the danger has passed.
An American document allegedly claiming direct aid should preferably go to locations of high density Coptic...
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2007
97% of Egyptian women are circumcised. The Fatwá of the Egyptian Muftī prohibiting female circumcision, the official rejecting stance of legislative institutions in the country, and the highlighted dangers of the operation seem to have little influence on the conservative traditional opinions of...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 10, 2007
We live in a stage in which an extremist religious discourse prevails at both Muslims and Christians. There is confusion between the thinking of men of religion and the sanctity of the religious texts.
Date of source: Monday, July 9, 2007
An engineer filed a communiqué to the Public Prosecutor demanding to sack the Muftī ‘Alī Jum‘ah and to refer him to a medical committee in order to test his mental ability.
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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.