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Date of source: Monday, September 24, 2001
The author is of the opinion that the events of September 11 made America lose its dignity-which is the reason for its hastiness in carrying out any military attack against any body, hoping that such an attack may wipe out the memory of the attacks on September 11. He stressed that because America...
Date of source: Monday, December 29, 2003
The author comments on the ideologies of Islamic groups and the fact their agendas lacked the essential issues that are important for Muslims. He believes that these groups lacked the many necessary conditions for a renaissance. He elaborates on these conditions and concludes that there is a need...
Date of source: Friday, August 22, 2003
The author comments on the issue of jihad in Islam. He believes that Muslims need a new fiqh for jihad that takes into consideration changes in the relations between different nations.
Date of source: Monday, July 7, 2003
The author comments on an article by Ayda Al-Gohari titled “The phenomenon of Amr Khalid…the preacher of rich people who look for a meaning [in life].” He believes that the analysis of Ayda is dominated by a secular, Marxist point of view – which led her to concentrate on the effect of the...
Date of source: Friday, August 23, 2002
Bat Ye´or wrote about jihad with political implications. This is enough to make one expect partiality in tone. The current situation in the Palestinian territories is another factor that influences the way many write about Jihad. By contrast to what Ye´or says, Islam does ask its adherents to...
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2006 to Friday, February 10, 2006
Over the last twenty years, some Islamic movements have preferred to work within their societies regarding their governments "the closer enemy.” They have divided the world into two sections: Dār al-Islām (the land of Islam), and Dār al-Harb (the land of war).
Date of source: Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Muhammad Wajdī Qandīl writes about how the United States sees Islam and how it intends to deal with what he calls the ’green peril’.
Date of source: Saturday, November 19, 2005
In a symposium cosponsored by the Kuwaiti Information Office and the newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, participants from the Arab world as well as the West shared their thoughts and ideas about terrorism and its origins.
Date of source: Saturday, October 1, 2005
Although the camp offered Qur’ānic, prophetic and historical citations, the Islamic banks have, in fact, offered nothing different from the ordinary ones.
Date of source: Friday, March 26, 2004
The second meeting of the Conference on Recent [Topics] in Islamic Thought, organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf [Endowments], witnessed a hot debate about the possibility of renewing fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence] terminology concerning jihad and international relations. The conference, the...
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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.