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Date of source: Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Dr. Tàriq Al-Juharì held a conference at the Center for Arab West Understanding. Moreover, he briefly discussed three major points, and then moved to answering the questions. Dr. Al-Juharì focused on three topics: the first one was: the idea of Sufism. The second one: He discussed the current...
Date of source: Saturday, September 26, 2020
Dr. Tarek al-Gawhary, MA Azhar University, PhD Princeton University, advisor to Sheikh Dr. Ali Goma’a. explained the thought process in Islamic Law and how a Muslim jurist can think about the concept of inclusive citizenship in a historical context. The basis is in the Constitution of Medina or the...
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Mr. Bas Belder was between 1999 and 2019 one of the very few members in the European Parliament showing an active interest in the position of Christians in the Middle East. He is to be complimented for his genuine interest in Christians in the Middle East but the sources he used in his paper for...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
An Islamic preacher, Dr. Muḥammad ʿAlī, spoke to the news website Masrāwī about khulʿ in Islamic law, clarified its legitimacy, and identified the differences between divorce and khulʿ. He explained that whilst divorce is initiated by the husband, khulʿ is initiated by the wife when she feels that...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
During a lecture held by the World Association of al-Azhar Graduates, and organized in cooperation with the al-Azhar International Academy for Training, Dr. Muṣṭafā Ṣalāḥ addressed the topic of false ideas and narratives being spread about Islam by those who maintained extremist ideologies. The...
Date of source: Monday, March 20, 2023
The matter of changing the religion of a child has been brought to the forefront of public discourse in Egypt, following the conversion of a child’s religion from Christian to Muslim. The boy was raised by Coptic parents after having been found outside a church in Cairo, however was later taken...
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2023
In an interview Dr. ʿĀṣim Ḥanafī, a professor of Islamic studies at the German University of Münster, has said that some members of al-Azhar advocate that ḥadd al-riddah (punishment for apostasy in Islam) is a political rather than religious punishment. He added that the ḥadd al-riddah is a purely...
Date of source: Monday, March 13, 2023
The Ṣūfī orders in Egypt have welcomed the founding of the Algerian Habriyya Bilqāʾidiyya Order, one of the orders pursuing the Holy Qurʾān and sunna, and attempting to combat deviations. The Supreme Council of Ṣūfī Orders expressed that it would “give fresh impetus to Ṣūfism in Egypt”....
Date of source: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Sūlāf Darwīsh, the Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Manpower Committee, has praised comments made by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, about the misuse of the term ‘freedoms’ by the West. Dr. al-Ṭayyīb had stated that the world was in need of religion to help solve...
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2023
The Egyptian Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) has issued a statement in response to the circulation online of a video showing an imām playing football with a group of youths inside a mosque. The Ministry discredited the video, stating that it was an old clip that had been re-shared on...
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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.