Date of source: Monday, July 8, 2019
An interview/lecture from Richard Gauvain regarding the impact of Salafism in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2024
Since the call for religious reform until this day, we have not reached agreement about the purpose of this step.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
When the book ‘al-Mawāqif wa al-Mukhāṭabāt’ by al-Nafarrī was published in Cairo in 1934, the late novelist and Nobel laureate Najīb Maḥfūẓ was just 23 years old, having already graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Department of the Egyptian University, now known as Cairo University.
Date of source: Friday, April 19, 2024
The Muslim Council of Elders is participating for the first time in the 38th edition of the Foire Internationale du Livre de Tunis, or the Tunis International Book Fair, which will be held from April 19 to 28 in the Tunisian capital.
Date of source: Saturday, April 6, 2024
Grand Imam on al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad el-Ṭayyīb, extended his congratulations to President ʿAbd el-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and to both the people within Egypt and in the Arab and Islamic world on the occasion of celebrating Laylat Al-Qadr.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2024
On Wednesday (January 10), The Cairo Criminal Court’s sentenced defendants to five years’ imprisonment terms in the retrial on the case known in the media as “Shiite sedition.”
Date of source: Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, spoke about one of al-Asmāʾ al-Ḥusna (99 Fairest Attributes of God), which is al-Ḥalīm, or the Clement.
Date of source: Sunday, April 7, 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām, received a high-level delegation from the Egyptian Episcopal/Anglican Church, led by Archbishop Sāmī Fawzī of Alexandria and Archbishop Dr. Munīr Ḥannā, the honorary head of the Episcopal Church and Director of the Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding...
Date of source: Saturday, April 6, 2024
The countdown has begun for the payment of Zakāt al-Fiṭr (alms for ʿĪd al-Fiṭr), which Muslims are required to pay prior to the Ramaḍān Bairam prayers at the end of the blessed month.
Date of source: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Dr. Salāma Dāwūd, President of al-Azhar University, highlighted that we are now entering the final third of the fasting month of Ramaḍān, with March 30 marking the beginning of the odd nights of the last 10 days.