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Date of source: Monday, October 30, 2006
The Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah revealed its new political ideology to
reject using violence against society. The group is due to hold meetings with its leaders as the government
releases its members from prisons.
Date of source: Sunday, August 7, 2005
In a statement published yesterday on al-Jamā‘ah al-
Islāmīyah’s website, the group denied any links to al-Qā‘idah¸ indicating that
Dr. Ayman al-Zawāhirī’s recent videotaped message about the alleged union between some members
of the group and al-Qā‘idah "contradicts reality."
Date of source: Wednesday, July 5, 2006
In an attempt to promote its recent non-violent approach, al
-Jamā‘ah al-
Islāmīyah has launched a website, which the author says marks a
considerable change in the
ideological stance of the "banned" Islamic group.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Two leading
members of al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya, ‘Āsim ‘Abd
al-Mājid and ‘Isām Dirbāla, have been recently released, thus decreasing the number
of the group’s current prisoners to less than 500.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 10, 2001
The article outlines the confessions of the terrorists who were accused in the case of those "Returning from Afghanistan and Albania." The confessions uncover the methods of recruitment and the planning of terrorist operations. Some of the terrorists were convinced of the concept of jihad against...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 14, 2003
The article is an overview of the answers the leaders of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya gave to four of the 30 questions directed to them concerning the initiative to renounce violence and the ijtihads it is based on.
Date of source: Saturday, September 13, 2003
In the light of the last chapter of a book titled “Ruling in Islam,” the article presents the meaning of “renewing fiqh,” “changing world,” and the role that can be played by the Gama´a Al-Islamiya in pushing that development.
Date of source: Thursday, March 7, 2002
[Hisba is a term referring to the right of a Muslim to defend public morality and suing on behalf of religion.] The article comments on one of the four books published recently by the Gama´at Al-Islamiya. The book discusses the concept of hisba. The leaders of the Gama´at admitted that hisba was...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Salah Hashim, the founder of the Gama´at Al-Islamiya spoke about the Gama´at since its foundation in Assiut, the role the then governor of Assiut played in relation to the formation of the Gama´at and their disputes with the Muslim Brotherhood. He supports the corrective review of the ideologies of...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 9, 2002
The administration of the Egyptian prisons department organized some meetings for the leaders of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya imprisoned in Tura prison with members of other Gama´at Islamiya jailed in other prisons. Moreover, more than one thousand prisoners of the Gama´a Al-Islamiya have recently been...
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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.