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Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2021
The first light from the crescent moon determines the start of the lunar month which is of great importance to Islam and other religions. The start of Ramadan and other religious obligations depend on a lunar calendar. It is thus understandable that the new moon has long been a matter of Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Dr. Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī, Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), is delivering next Friday sermon at the Azhar for the first time, which will be attended by ministers and scholars of the Azhar, according to Shaykh Salāmah ‘Abd al-Qawī, the official spokesman for the awqāf (...
Date of source: Friday, December 28, 2012
The Islamic Research Academy, headed by the Azhar’s Grand Shaykh Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb, decided to postponed examining the “women document” until it is being finally reviewed. The document will be discussed the coming week (before January 27, 2013) during the meeting of the Azhar Senior Scholars that...
Date of source: Thursday, May 15, 2014
Dr. Ahmad Karīmah, professor of sharī’ah at the Azhar stated in response to al- Qaradawi’s fatwa, calling the participation in the presidential elections harām, that religion has nothing to do with elections and that no person or institution can claim that such a vote or referendum is halāl (...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Today, Saturday, Cairo Criminal Court renewed the detention of 4 indicters for 45-day pending investigation on charge of financing terrorism, including the daughter of a Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī, ʿUlā.
Both ʿUlā al-Qaraḍāwī and her husband were arrested by the Egyptian security authorities in July 2017...
Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2014
Azharite sources have stated that the Azhar has referred a request from Dr. Muhmmad Mukhtār Jum’ah, Minister of Endowments, calling for not recognizing the World Union for Muslim Scholars, headed by Yūssuf al- Qaradāwī, and closing any branches it may have in Egypt, to the Islamic Research...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Dr. Yusuf al- Qaradāwī, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholar has requested the members of the union to convene in Turkey to discuss the crisis that the Muslim Brotherhood organization is going through.
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Egypt has been deeply divided between sympathizers
Date of source: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Meanwhile, General Dāhī Khalfān, the Dubai Police Chief, severely criticized Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group in the aftermath of a crisis that erupted over statements by Egyptian preacher Yūsuf al-Qaradāwī, the secretary-general of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awwā, a presidential candidate, said the loss of Pope Shenouda was a grave one, adding the Coptic Orthodox Church is an old institution that has its own traditions.
“The successor pope will not change much of Pope Shenouda’s ways because the fundamental principles of the...
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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.