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Date of source: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Sheikh Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Advisor to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Daʿwah, and Guidance in Saudi Arabia, said, "There is an urgent need for a comprehensive visionary plan to reshape the project of moderation and balance so that it becomes a beacon guiding everyone across the Islamic...
Date of source: Sunday, November 9, 2025
As part of its ongoing efforts, al-Azhar Mosque announced the opening of 70 new branches of al-Rawāq al-Azharī for Qurʾān memorization in several new Egyptian cities.
Date of source: Friday, November 7, 2025
Al-Azhar al-Sharīf condemns the horrific bombing that occurred inside a mosque within a school complex in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, during Friday prayers, which resulted in dozens of students being injured.
Date of source: Friday, October 31, 2025
Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) Osāma al-Azharī extended "sincere congratulations" to President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and the "great Egyptian people" on the occasion of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), an exceptional event that restores to human consciousness the immortal...
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2025
The Supreme Council of Sufi Orders, headed by Dr. ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Qaṣabī, issued an official statement in response to "fabricated controversy" over the legitimacy of celebrating the mawlid of al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Badawī, one of the symbols of Islamic Sufism in Egypt and the Islamic world. It affirmed...
Date of source: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Rachel M. Scott is Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture and Professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her areas of research include Islamic political thought, modern Islamic law, constitutions, the role of religious scholars in Islam, personal status law,...
Date of source: Sunday, October 19, 2025
The Supreme Council of Ṣūfī Orders affirmed that the controversy over Mawlid al-Sayyid al-Badawī is a manufactured one, not relying on reality or goodwill, but a repeated attempt to create propaganda for the sake of publicity at the expense of the religious constants and spiritual heritage of...
Date of source: Thursday, October 16, 2025
A cleric at Dār al-Iftā’ said the so-called digital jihād has become one of the most dangerous tools of extremist groups in this modern time, being used to manipulate awareness through deluding slogans under the cloak of religion.
Date of source: Sunday, October 12, 2025
Al-Azhar Mosque held on Sunday (October 12) the weekly forum on interpretation of the meanings of the Holy Qur’ān and features of the scientific miracles in the Muslim holy book about the seas.
Date of source: Sunday, October 12, 2025
Dr. Ayman al-Ḥajjār, a researcher at al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars, said the ḥadīth that reads "A people who make a woman their ruler will never be successful" is a well-documented one reported by Imām al-Bukhārī and narrated by the revered Ṣaḥabī (the Prophet’s Companion) Abū Bakra.
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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.