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Date of source: Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The author of the article, Dr. Wā’il ‘Azīz, discusses religious freedom versus freedom of expression. He calls on Muslims to acknowledge the achievements of all Muslim scholars and intellectuals, and asserts that no one has the right to issue fatwás of Takfīr against anyone unless they publicly...
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2007
Egyptian security forces recently launched a massive drive against leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, since group-related students gave a military style rally in the Azhar University a few months ago [AWR, week 51, 2006, article 26]. Members of the group say that the crackdown aims at removing the...
Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2002
The
author criticizes the opinion of the Creed and Philosophy Committee that the apostate is to be given a lifetime
chance to renounce his apostate ideas. He lists Qur’ān verses stating that apostates should be killed. He
believes it is dangerous to alleviate non-negotiable rules and change the...
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 1997
Subtitle: 1- The leader of the organization says, "When Dr. Yehia Ismael said that Hanafy was an apostate, we decided to kill him" 2- The one who was supposed to carry out the operation says, "The plan was to kill him with penknives. I have trained on how to do this in Nozha" 3- An official...
Date of source: Monday, December 22, 1997
The author criticises the fatwa declaring Dr. Hassan Hanafy to be an apostate and explains how Dr. Hanafy’s work was taken out of context, and twisted to imply that he opposed Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, November 2, 1997
This article
contains the reply of Pope
Shenouda to a demand by Wasiem Roushdi Al-Seici that the pope erase the verses of
the Torah that attack Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, August 22, 1997
Many news reports talk about the existence of a political plan to set up an Israeli community in Australia. The details of this plan, that is supposed to have been agreed by the International Jewish Council and the Zionist Federation in Australia, are not known exactly, but there are some...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The report examines the definitions of polemics, the differing views of what constitutes polemics, including the Danish cartoons and the play in Alexandria which led to sectarian violence, Mīzān al-Haqq, a 19th century Christian polemical book against Islam and the Gospel of Barnabas, which is the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 25, 2003 to Friday, January 31, 2003
Explanation of the rule "No ijtihad with a text." The author believes that this rule imprisons the mind and forbids bringing about new legislations.
Date of source: Saturday, January 18, 2003 to Friday, January 24, 2003
Ijtihad was a great door to freedom in the dawn of Islam. Each ijtihad should be connected to its age and should put the holy text in the service of the age and not the other way round. However, fiqh scholars laid down rules that made valid ijtihad an impossible task.
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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.