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Date of source: Wednesday, June 25, 1997
The terms ’kafir’ (unbeliever) and ’murtad’ (an
apostate from Islam)
are extremely important in Islam. The article discusses the recent court cases in Egypt
against people
accused of being ’murtad’, for example the case of Nasr Abu Zaid, a professor in Arabic at
the University of
Cairo, and...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 13, 2006
In his article, Ibrāhīm ‘Īsā discusses the controversial issue of the Shī‘ah. Referring to Shaykh al-Qaradāwī’s views, ‘Īsā attempts to prove that although the Shī‘ah differ from Sunnī,their doctrine has a basis in the Qur’ān and Sunnah.
Date of source: Monday, September 11, 2006
‘Ādil Hammūda warns against trusting repentant Islamic terrorist
groups. These groups
are a “danger lurking in the dark,” awaiting the opportunity to attack Egypt’s security and
stability, he
says.
Date of source: Monday, September 4, 2006
The author interviewed Rafīq al-‘Ajamī, one of the Arab Afghans who was imprisoned for four years on charges of carrying out the explosion of the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan in 1996.
Date of source: Saturday, August 5, 2006
The
author states a number of Muslim scholars’
responses to a fatwá issued by Shaykh ‘Abd
Allāh Bin Jabrīn, in which he asks
Sunnī Muslims to stop advocating for the Hizb
Allāh in its war against Israel in Lebanon.
Date of source: Thursday, July 20, 2006
Members of Qur’ān anti- Christian group, led by a professor from the
Azhar University, were arrested by Egyptian authorities.
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2006
Sa‘d al-Dīn Ibrāhīm
tells how Western interest in Egypt has
shifted to social and religious issues.
Date of source:
The article
carry some of the confessions given by suspects in last
year’s bombings in different areas of downtown Cairo, which
killed a number of tourists and Egyptians and
wounded dozens others.
Date of source: Sunday, May 28, 2006
Ministry of Interior has refused to allow 150 Christian converts to Islam, who later returned to Christianity, to change the religious data on their identity cards back to Christianity. Kamal Zākhir Mousa argues that an extremist wing of the political elite is trying to link citizenship to...
Date of source: Monday, May 15, 2006
The
court ruling previously pronounced by a lower administrative court giving Bahā’īs the rights to
state their religion in official documents is overturned by the Supreme Administrative Court.
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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.