Date of source: Saturday, March 10, 2007
Some extremist groups in Islamic society give themselves authority over people’s beliefs, to the extent that they will force people to perform rituals which constitute an explicit violation of Islamic teachings.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Dr. Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī, the grand Imām of the Azhar, comments on a series of articles entitled, ’The Perils of a Religious State,’ by Dr. Jabir ‘Aṣfūr, published by al-Ahram, starting on January 15, 2006.
Date of source: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Iqbāl al-Sa‘dāwī discusses the Ḥadd of Riddah and when it should be applied in Islām.
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2007
In an interview with al-Wafd, Dr. Jamāl Rajab Sīdbī, a professor of Islamic philosophy at Suez Canal University who is also an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education, in Nizwa, Oman, discusses the recent escalation in tensions between Islām and the West.
Date of source: Friday, January 12, 2007
Sanā’ al- Sa‘īd interviews Pope Shenouda to discuss the principles of dialogue among civilizations and religions.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Talking about censorship and freedom of thought, the writer argues that Islām is the religion of freedom as it calls for it before secular communities. It is manifested as the Muslims in the past did not know any inspection courts of nowadays.
Date of source: Monday, November 27, 2006
In a series of articles published by al-Ahrām
newspaper, Dr. Ahmad al-
Tayyib, the president of the Azhar University, analyses Pope Benedict
XVI’s speech of September 12,
2006.
Date of source: Friday, November 17, 2006
The author of
the
article argues that interfaith dialogue is not the solution for followers of different religions to overcome
fanaticism,
but rather that co-existence and respecting different beliefs are required.
Date of source: Monday, November 20, 2006
Islam promotes and celebrates diversity of mankind. had God
wanted all people to believe in one
religion, He would have made it so.
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2006
Explaining the broad meaning of the concept of
jihād in Islām, Muslim thinker Rajab al-Bannā quoted famous British writer Karen
Armstrong’s definition of it as "struggle and effort, not a synonym for holy war as Westerners define it."
Ahmad ‘Izz al-Dīn al-‘Arab wrote in a short article in al-...