Date of source: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Dr. Jason Thompson, history professor at AUC, emphasizes the
role
that orientalists have played in intercultural understanding.
Date of source: Sunday, June 22, 2003
The author raises a question: Is rejecting the other a characteristic confined to Islamic culture? She writes that the reason behind her question is to compare between the strength of the religion [of Islam] and the strength of its followers on the international level. She also analyzes the reasons...
Date of source: Saturday, October 25, 2003
The author comments on the “lovers of takfir” [those who love to accuse others of disbelief]. Instead of attracting people to Islam, “the lovers of takfir” do their best to prove that accused Muslims parted from Islam. There is also another group, non-Muslims, particularly orientalists, that...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 4, 2003
Prof. Dr. Kruk of Leiden University explained the program for Islamic studies in cooperation with the Azhar and some religious institutions in Indonesia and Leiden University. This program is an important development in the area of oriental studies that can open a free and fruitful dialogue between...
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2003
German orientalist Tillman Nagel, director of the Arab and Islamic Studies Institution at the German University of Goetingen, speaks about the role of orientalists in explaining Islam to the West. He comments on globalization, the West´s campaign against Islam, the Palestinian and Iraqi issues...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
The concept of ‘terrorism’ is still indefinable. The term ‘roots of terrorism’ is even more ambiguous. It has thus become very easy to link terrorism to Islam and to claim that the ‘roots of terrorism’ find a suitable environment in Islam, or in Islamic fundamentalism, as a deviation from the true...
Date of source: Saturday, July 2, 2005
Professor Bruce B. Lawrence, the head of the religions department of the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is the author of the book Islam Beyond Violence, in which he defended the religion many Western writers allege as one that urges believers to be extreme and violent and assault...
Date of source: Sunday, December 8, 2002
Attacks upon Islam in the Western media is taken as a sign of Western democracy and freedom of expression. The matter has reached a point where the West is distorting the Qur´an through translation. Translations by German Orientalists are partial and not complete. Even some Orientalists who do...
Date of source: Sunday, September 15, 2002
The rage against Islam did not start with September 11 but September 11 brought the already existing feelings in the open. Therefore, Muslims have to move from within the Western nations, speak their language and use the logic they understand in order to remove the preconceived ideas and...
Date of source: Friday, February 17, 2006
The author of the article comments on a book about the Prophet Muhammad by the Christian writer Nabīl Louqā Bibāwī. He explains that while Christian and Jewish clerics added to their holy books, the Islamic faith remained unchanged.