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Date of source: 5 Sep 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.
“The forum, under the auspices of Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al...
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Date of source: 25 Jun 2023
Veteran journalist Muʾnis al-Zuhayrī took to social media to express his anger, writing, “You have insulted the idea, the value, the content, and Jamāl ͑Abd al-Nāṣir, who established the radio station in 1964. Stop the ads in the Holy Qurʾān Broadcast.” He was referring to the state of the Holy...
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Date of source: 11 Jul 2023
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sāmiḥ Shukrī delivered a recorded speech at a meeting held by the UN Human Rights Council at the request of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), titled “The Escalation of Religious Hatred Evident in the Repeated Violations of the Holy Qurʾān.”
In his speech,...
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Date of source: 11 Jul 2023
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is convening an urgent session on July 11, 2023, during its 53rd ordinary session in Geneva.
This session was requested by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss the repeated, deliberate, and flagrant religious hatred acts and the...
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Date of source: 24 Mar 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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Date of source: 18 Jul 2023
The concept of “freedom of belief” has been put on the shelves when someone announces a decision to convert from Christianity to Islam or vice versa. Both Muslims and Christians are promoting the concept of killing apostates, but both disregard the content of the Qurʾān and the Bible regarding this...
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Date of source: 19 Mar 2018
The former director-general of al-Azhar magazine, Shaykh al-Ṭāhrī al-Ḥāmdī, said the Prophet Muḥammad had ordered the killing of any person who insulted him, citing several examples from the Prophet’s tradition in a lengthy article in the magazine issue of March 2018.
Although any insults against...
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Date of source: 22 Oct 2020
“We do indeed know how thy heart is distressed at what they say” (Q 15:97) and “But those who abuse the Messenger [of Allāh] will have a grievous penalty” (Q 9:61). These are the rulings of the Qurʾān on any person who insults the Prophet Muḥammad in words or actions.
There is no killing,...
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Date of source: 8 Oct 2017
Former Grand Muftī, Dr.ʿAlī Jumʿa, said defectors from Islam should never be killed and that their punishment must be left to God to decide on Judgement Day, asserting that Islam allows for freedom of thought.
“Apostates are two kinds: the first are those who quit Islam and have their own beliefs,...
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Date of source: 14 Aug 2023
President of the Protestant Community of Egypt, Dr. Andrēa Zakī, said that the state has played a major role in the legalization of churches, adding that the Coptic Evangelical community has 1,500 churches, from which 500 were registered.
“In a matter of only five years, 500 churches and conference...
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Date of source: 18 Aug 2023
More than 80 houses owned by Christians and 19 churches have been damaged in acts of riot in Pakistan, as announced by the Pakistani police on Friday (August 18) according to Al Arabiya news channel.
Al-Azhar strongly condemned the assaults on several churches in eastern Pakistan, unequivocally...
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Date of source: 19 Aug 2023
More than 80 houses of Christians and 19 churches were vandalized in the state of Punjab, Pakistan, when hundreds stormed a Christian neighborhood after news of Christians allegedly desecrating the Qurʾān.
The French news agency AFP said a cleric told his followers, “You should die if you do not...
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Date of source: 31 Jul 2023
A professional professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in al-Minyā University has sculpted a statue of the Virgin Mary to decorate the route of the Holy Family in the city of Drunka in the Asyūṭ governorate.
Dr. Jirjis al-Jāwalī, a professor of field sculpting, told al-Waṭan that Anbā Yūʾānnis,...
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Date of source: 19 Aug 2023
“A Reading Family … A Rising Nation” is the motto of the summer book fair 2023 that started its cultural activities in the area of al-Raml, central Alexandria, where 50 Egyptian, Arab, and foreign publishing houses took part.
Governor Muḥammad al-Sharīf, who inaugurated the event, said Alexandria...
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Date of source: 8 Jul 2023
Prince of Believers, King Moḥammed VI of Morocco, said that scholars are required to have a positive influence on people by focusing on the privileges of moderation and discrediting the negative impacts that “ignorant extremists” can have on the minds of the vulnerable.
“There is a great...
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Date of source: 6 Jul 2023
Twelve thinkers and researchers are attending the Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd Conversations Week in an intellectual salon to start at 09:00 p.m. on Saturday (July 8).
The conversations will focus on the works of the late thinker, Dr. Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd, with particular emphasis on the ideology of the Mu...
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Date of source: 27 Jun 2023
The Jordanian capital of Amman has hosted a five-day workshop for the training of fellowship on dialogue journalism, offered by the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), an international government organization that seeks to bring...
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Date of source: 7 Jul 2023
Under the leadership of Pope Tawāḍrūs II, the Coptic Orthodox Church has maintained good relations with other churches, particularly the Roman Catholic Church. According to the official site of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the relationship between Pope Tawāḍrūs and Pope Francis of the Vatican was...
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Date of source: 6 Jul 2023
An Iraqi refugee in Sweden burned a copy of the Holy Qurʾān. This act has been widely condemned as it insults Muslims all over the world and goes against human values and principles.
Sweden allowed the burning of copies of the Qurʾān after it canceled a decision to reject protests that included the...
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Date of source: 3 Sep 2023
The incident of burning a copy of the Holy Qurʾān in Sweden has provoked outrage among people who call for social peace. The act, committed by an Iraqi refugee residing in Sweden named Silwān Mōmīkā, was seen as a flagrant assault on the sanctities of the Islamic religion.
Mōmīkā burned a copy...
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Date of source: 9 Jul 2023
Egyptian President ͑Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī has made reforming educational and religious discourse a top priority since he was elected and officially assumed office in July 2014. This was in response to concerns about terrorism and the rise to power of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
In...
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Date of source: 7 Jul 2023
The National Center for Translation under Dr. Karma Sāmī announced the bestseller books for the month of June 2023, of which the first was Thomas Merton’s ‘An Introduction on Christian Mysticism’, translated by Karam ͑Abbās.
The second bestseller was Peter Gran’s book, ‘The Persistence of...
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Date of source: 7 Jul 2023
The Azhar Fatwā Global Center explained the rules of the zakāt (alms-giving) according to the Islamic sharī ͑a. It affirmed that the zakāt is one of the five pillars of Islam according to the Holy Qurʾān, which commanded “Take, [O, Muḥammad], from their wealth a charity by which you purify them and...
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Date of source: 2 Jul 2023
Director of the Marriage Counseling Center at Dār al-Iftāʾ, Dr. ͑Amr al-Wardānī, said the question of family violence is a far cry from the five intents of the sharī ͑a, which works towards the preservation of religion, self, mind, offspring, and property.
“The first purpose of the sharī ͑a is the...
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Date of source: 17 Jun 2023
According to historical accounts, the Holy Family fled from Palestine to Egypt to escape the repression of King Herod, who intended to kill Jesus Christ. An angel appeared to Joseph (Yūsuf) the Carpenter and instructed him to take the boy and his mother and flee to Egypt.
The official website of...
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Date of source: 13 Dec 2022
The Secretariat of the Homeland Defenders Party (Ḥizb Ḥummāt al-Waṭan) of the Banī Sūwayf governorate has organized a national dialogue entitled: “National Dialogue for all Egyptians”, under the chairmanship of the councilor Ḥasan Jaʿfar. The economic subject of debate was the promotion of exports...
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Date of source: 28 Jul 2023
Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ͑Arabī (1165-1240) was a renowned Ṣūfī philosopher, poet, and sage. He is considered one of the world’s greatest spiritual teachers and is often referred to by his disciples and students, as well as other Ṣūfīs, as “al-Shaykh al-Akbar” (The Greatest Master). The Ṣūfī Order of al-...
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Date of source: 1 Jan 2022
A member of Al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars and the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāf ͑ī, was awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam for the year 2022, shared with the former president of Tanzania.
This is the first time Dr. Shāf ͑ī has received this...
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Date of source: 19 Oct 2020
The Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo held a session today to elect a new president. Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāf ͑ī was elected for a third four-year term.
The voting took place at 11:00 a.m. with contenders Dr. Shāf ͑ī and Dr. Ṣalāh Faḍl. Twenty-eight members of the academy board cast their ballots...
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Date of source: 23 Apr 2017
The Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) has shown interest in women’s affairs and has established a department dedicated to answering women’s questions through a team of female muftīs who are well-versed in sharī ͑a rules and provisions.
An associate professor at the Azhar University...
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Date of source: 3 Feb 2023
Pastor of the Anbā Antonius Church of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the Cairo district of Shubrā, Priest Dr. Bīshūy Hilmī, spoke about the importance of fraternity as a human value.
He stated that all people are brothers in humanity, regardless of time or place, as they all come from the same...
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Date of source: 19 Jul 2023
The Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs in Palestine (HCC) has condemned an attempt by Israeli extremists to assault the St. Eliās Church of the Greek Catholic Church in Ḥaifā.
Ramzī Khūrī, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and HCC chairman, denounced the threats...
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Date of source: 14 Jul 2023
Female circumcision causes physical and psychological damage to the lives and health of young women. It is also a crime punishable by law.
These harms include excessive bleeding as the result of the removal of tissues composed of blood vessels and severe pain and inflammation of the vagina as the...
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Date of source: 29 Mar 2023
A TV series called ‘Ḥaḍrat al-͑ Umda’ (The Distinguished Mayor) has worked to address social problems, including female circumcision, or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). FGM is a cultural tradition that leaves deep psychological and physical scars and has been known to violate girls’ rights.
The...
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Date of source: 15 Jul 2023
The National Council for Women (NCW) confirmed that the rate of female circumcision in Egypt has plummeted thanks to growing awareness that the practice is a crime and has nothing to do with religion or medicine. They added that credit for this goes to the state, the NCW, and the National Council...
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Date of source: 28 Jul 2023
Minister of Awqāf (religious endowments) Muḥammad Mukhtār Jum ͑a and Governor of al-Jīza General Aḥmad Rāshid met leading preachers in the governorate of al-Jīza on Friday to discuss issues related to the regulation of the adhān (Muslim call for prayers).
Jum ͑a said his ministry will work on...
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Date of source: 28 Jul 2023
On Friday, Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church met with priests and servants of the churches in the Gulf states of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar.
The meeting was held at the Anbā Rūways Stage at the St. Mark Cathedral in Cairo. It commenced with prayers, followed by a...
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Date of source: 29 Jul 2023
On Saturday, Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church met with members of the Société d'Archéologie Copte (SAC) and several specialists who obtained Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Coptic studies at Egyptian universities during the past two years.
The meeting took place at the end of the two-...
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Date of source: 24 Jul 2023
The Muftī of the Sultanate of Oman, Aḥmad Bin Ḥamd al-Khalīlī, called for a “firm and comprehensive” Islamic boycott of Sweden in response to its “excessive” insults towards the Holy Qurʾān and Muslim sanctities on its lands.
In a tweet on his official Twitter account, the muftī wrote that it has...
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Date of source: 26 Jul 2023
On Wednesday, Iraq welcomed a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the encouragement of dialogue and religious tolerance in the face of hate speech.
The resolution was unanimously approved during a session of the UNGA held on Tuesday (July 25).
In a press release today, 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.