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Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2025
Celebrations of the mūlid (birthday anniversary) of al-Ārif Billah Sīdī Aḥmad al-Badawī are starting today, Friday (October 10), in the city of Ṭanṭā, al-Gharbīya Governorate, amid special spiritual mood witnessed every year.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) Dr. Usāma al-Azharī on Tuesday (August 12) received Dr. Aḥmad al-Ḥasanāt, Grand Muftī of the Hāshemite Kingdom of Jordan, at the headquarters of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo, where they exchanged views on cooperation in the field of daʿwa...
Date of source: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
A cleric of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs said Egypt has lost a great man and scholar who offered much for the Muslim nation and the students of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad ʿUmar Hāshim, a member of al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars.
Date of source: Sunday, October 12, 2025
Muḥammad Aḥmad ʿUmar Hāshim, the son of the late cleric Aḥmad ʿUmar Hāshim, who was a member of al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars and the former president of al-Azhar University, expressed "deepest appreciation" to President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī for naming him for the Senate membership...
Date of source: Monday, October 13, 2025
Ramaḍān is the biggest Islamic festival of the year for Muslims all over the world, with fasting (ṣawm) being one of the five pillars of Islam. Taking place in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, Muslims are obligated to observe a period of fasting during daylight hours, in which one must...
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2025
In 2024, the Ministry of the Interior, then led by Gérald Darmanin (member of Renaissance, a political party typically described as liberal and centrist or center-right), commissioned a group of senior officials, more precisely a retired diplomat and a prefect, to conduct in-depth research on...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) Dr. Osāma al-Azharī said Dr. ʿAlī Gomʿa, the former grand muftī of Egypt and member of the Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars, had a great influence on his character.
Date of source: Sunday, October 5, 2025
Egypt’s Dār al-Iftā’ resumed sessions at mosques nationwide in coordination with the Ministry of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) as part of its awareness-raising role to spread moderate ways of thinking, rectify misconceptions and encounter some unfavorable phenomena within the society.
Date of source: Monday, March 17, 2025
The Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, said that the Islamic Sharīʿa is applied in Islamic societies in all its forms, not exclusively in relation only to ḥudūd (punishments for specific crimes determined by the Qur’ān and the ḥadīth), as some extremist groups propagate.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Al-Azhar hosted the weekly session of the Jurisprudential Forum "Modern Perspective" under the title "Social Media: Jurisprudential Perspective" with the attendance of Dr. Maḥmūd al-Ṣāwī, former Vice Dean of the Faculty of Media at al-Azhar University, and Dr. ʿAlī al-Mahdī, Secretary of the...
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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.