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Date of source: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Rachel M. Scott is Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture and Professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her areas of research include Islamic political thought, modern Islamic law, constitutions, the role of religious scholars in Islam, personal status law,...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2025
The European Alliance in Defense of Palestinian Detainees first invited Cornelis Hulsman as a speaker at their conference in international support of Palestinian prisoners and detainees on September 30 and October 1, 2023. In 2024 no physical annual conference was organized. On May 3-4, 2025, the...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 4, 2025
On June 4, Studenten Internationale Betrekkingen (SIB) in Leiden, https://sibleiden.nl/, invited three former members to speak about their careers with references to their time as members of the SIB Leiden student society. One of the speakers became a diplomat, now serving at the Dutch Embassy in...
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2025
On Wednesday, October 15th, DAB editor Luka Renić and CAWU intern Bart Evers had an opportunity to attend the Mawlid of Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī in Ṭanṭa, Egypt. This unique opportunity provided us with insights into Egyptian Sufi practices through firsthand observations and interactions with...
Date of source: Monday, October 13, 2025
Ramaḍān is the biggest Islamic festival of the year for Muslims all over the world, with fasting (ṣawm) being one of the five pillars of Islam. Taking place in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, Muslims are obligated to observe a period of fasting during daylight hours, in which one must...
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...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
This paper examines the impact of various civil society organizations in Egypt on intercommunal and interreligious relations in the country. The analysis builds upon a brief overview of the status and role of civil society in Egypt, which considers the complex historical legacy of intercommunal and...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 7, 2025
In June 2025, I was able to gain valuable insight into the current situation in Syria after the fall of the Assad government by spending almost two weeks travelling and doing field research in the cities of Damascus, Maʿlūlā, Ṣaydnāyā, Aleppo, al-Raqqa, al-Qāmishlī, and al-Ḥasakah. With its rich...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Abstract: Inspired by Asmāʾ al-Sharqāwī’s 2025 book, Kāmilāt ʿAql wa-Dīn (“Complete in Mind and Religion”), this brief essay by Sāra al-Sherbīnī engages one of the more contested ḥadīths in the Islamic tradition — a text frequently cited to diminish women yet also defended and reinterpreted by...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
According to some New Testament accounts (cf. Matthew 2), when a group of wise men from the East declared Jesus to be the next Jewish king, King Herod of Judea decided to pursue him to prevent this. An angel warned Joseph to leave Bethlehem and flee to Egypt with the Virgin Mary and Jesus....
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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.