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Date of source: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Dr. Hiba ʿŪf, a professor of Qurʾān interpretation at al-Azhar University, said using divorce to get a pension or using ʿurfī (legal but informal) marriage to gain financially are flagrant violations of Islamic and Muslim ethics.
Date of source: Sunday, November 3, 2024
From September 2nd through 4th, Dialogue Across Borders cosponsored a third round of the “Journey of Learning” interfaith program with the Centre for Christian-Muslim Understanding and Partnership (Anglican/Episcopal) in Cairo. The conference offered Christians and Muslims an opportunity to listen...
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: Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Recent statements by Dr. ʿAlī Jumʿa, the former grand muftī of Egypt, have stirred public opinion on social media, particularly regarding the possibility of bypassing torment in the afterlife.
Date of source: Friday, June 16, 2023
Adherents of the historic Ṣūfī leader, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī, went in great numbers into the mountainous valley of Ḥumaythira, in the city of Marsā ʿAlam, to visit his mausoleum.
Date of source: Monday, September 4, 2023
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī was one of the greatest imāms of Egypt, known for his scholarly contributions to Islam, such as Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, in addition to other books related to the rules of the Qurʾān.
Date of source: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Al-Azhar’s faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn (theology) in Ṭanṭā is holding the third international conference on the efforts of Islamic institutions in handling intellectual and social issues in today’s world.
Date of source: Friday, August 11, 2023
Islamic preacher Muʿiz Masʿūd said he did not like to think about any type of fame, except the one with sublime principles and ethics, adding that fame has offered him an opportunity for Ṣūfī mysticism.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2023
The first scholarly forum on Imām al-Shāfʿī and his school of thought was held at the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Girls at al-Azhar University in Banī Sūwayf, according to the faculty dean, Dr. Ḥanān ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
Date of source: Friday, March 24, 2017
“The proponents of Islamic fiqh (jurisprudence) schools are no longer differing over whether the killing of apostates is a crime or not. It is a conspiracy to kill people by acting as God; a plot of men in power and autocrats who repress opposition by silencing those who fail to heap praise on them...
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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.