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Date of source: 24 Aug 2024
The former grand muftī and chairman of the House of Representatives’ Religious & Awqāf Affairs Committee, Dr. ʿAlī Jumʿa, noted that the Awqāf conference is unique in that it highlights the role that women play in awareness-raising.
According to a statement from Jumʿa, the 35th conference of...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Aug 2024
Under the patronage of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, Minister of Awqāf (religious endowments), Dr. Osāma al-Azharī, honored a number of dignitaries and notable members of Egyptian society on the sidelines of the 35th session of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs.
In the Cairo district of...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Aug 2024
At the 2024 Indonesia International Islamic Book Fair, the Muslim Council of Elders pavilion took home the Best Pavilion Award, making it stand out among the local and international institutions, organizations, and publishing firms that were present.
Tens of thousands of people attended the fair,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Aug 2024
Dr. Ashraf al-Rāʿī will soon publish a new book titled “Electronic Crimes - Objective Rulings on Crimes of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence,” which discusses Jordanian statute 17/2023 on electronic crimes.
The book is a valuable addition to the law library at a time when...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 17 Aug 2024
Copts offered prayers and petitions for the return of Christina Karīm ʿAzīz, a 20-year-old Christian girl who has vanished for almost two weeks in the Asyūṭ governorate’s al-Fatḥ town.
Her family made a plea to all relevant authorities to step in and help solve the girl’s unexplained disappearance...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 8 Sep 2024
At the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs headquarters, editors-in-chief of major press organizations met with the Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments), Dr. Osāma al-Azharī, to discuss the ministry’s action plan to renew religious discourse.
During a speech, Dr. Azharī stated that his ministry...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 17 Mar 2024
2024 was designated as the “Year of Female Preachers” due to the prominence of female preachers at al-Azhar and the Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) in recent years.
More than 200 female preachers from al-Azhar and over 1,000 accredited female preachers from the Awqāf Ministry worked...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 3 Sep 2024
As the tenure of the current councils on divorce and second marriage expired, Pope Tawāḍrūs issued an order replacing the heads and members of the regional clerical personal status councils dealing with these issues.
Papal Decision No. 3 for the year 2024 on the lineup of the Clerical Council on...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 9 Aug 2024
There was wide-scale controversy in Iraq after the Ministry of Justice proposed a draft law to lower the age of marriage to 9 years of age for females and 15 years of age for males.
Proponents of human rights fiercely opposed the plan, calling it a “major setback for human and women's rights in the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 28 Aug 2024
A high-level youth delegation from the Egyptian Family House project (Bayt al-ʿĀʾila), led by Anbā Ermīyā Makram, met with Egypt's Grand Muftī, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, to discuss ways to collaborate.
ʿAyyād, who is also the head of the General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide, emphasized that...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 11 Sep 2024
The Director of the Islamic Sheikhdom of Croatia, Shaykh ʿAzīz Hasanović, stated that there is no denying the efforts made by Dār al-Iftāʾ in Egypt to counter accusations of Islamophobia, which have been steadily increasing. This is especially true in light of the increasing number of racist...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 14 Sep 2024
The chairman of the council of Catholic patriarchs and bishops, Anbā Ibrāhīm Isḥaq of Alexandria, congratulated President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and other high ranking state officials on the occasion of al-Mawlid al-Nabawī, which marks the Prophet Muḥammad's birthday.
Anbā Isḥaq issued a statement...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Sep 2024
The life of the Afghan woman has changed considerably over the past few decades. In the past, women had equality, voting rights, and legal protections, polygamy was not permitted, weddings were reserved for girls over the age of 21, and while traditional attire was the norm, some women preferred to...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Sep 2024
The Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments), Dr. Osāma al-Azharī, stated that Egypt, led by President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, is making every effort to put an end to the conflict in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In a speech on al-Mawlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday), Azharī stated...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 9 Sep 2024
A Shem Tov Bible text from the 1312 Spanish Golden Age will go up for auction at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday, September 10, with a starting bid of $5–7 million.
One of the most significant Hebrew copies of the Bible that made it through the Spanish Middle Ages is the Shem Tov. It was written...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 10 Oct 2024
Love is an endless debate, deceptively simple yet deeply complex. Many discussions are circulating about the nature of love, probing questions like: Can we commit ourselves and make choices? Who do we fall in love with and whom do we avoid? Can we create a “book” of prohibitions for ourselves and...
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Translator Ḥabība Maḥmūd
Date of source: 26 Sep 2024
“In only 23 years, the Prophet Muḥammad managed to bring mankind from darkness to light and to set up a fully-fledged Ummah (state) based on knowledge, righteousness, dignity, and humanity,” said the deputy grand imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Muḥammad al-Ḍūwaynī. “This state has spread throughout the world...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 8 Oct 2024
On the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023 operation, the most important question that needs to be asked is whether Israel intended to move toward a peaceful settlement and this operation came about to destroy this track, or if Israel has progressively eliminated any chances for a peaceful...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 7 Oct 2024
On the first anniversary of October 7, 2023, the day when the “fuse of hatred was lit” that would begin the war in Gaza, Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church sent a letter addressing all Catholic Christians in the Middle East.
In his letter, Pope Francis said, “I am thinking of you and praying...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 17 Oct 2024
Muḥammad ʿIzz al-ʿArab, an expert at Al-Ahrām Center for Political & Strategic Studies (ACPSS), said that Israel has been sending mixed messages and is currently not planning on stopping its war, which is being carried out simultaneously on multiple fronts.
He stated, “An essential part of the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 19 Oct 2024
On November 18, the Coptic Orthodox Church will commemorate the 12th anniversary of Pope Tawāḍrūs’ inauguration as the 118th pope in church history and as the Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark the Apostle.
His Holiness’ numerous accomplishments from November 2012 to March 2021 have had a...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 20 Oct 2024
The Coptic Orthodox Church postponed the 10th seminar that was scheduled to be held in November 2024 at Wādī al-Naṭrūn Monastery in al-Buḥyra Desert sine die, without an appointed date for resumption.
In an official statement, the church said that the seminar was delayed for further preparations...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 17 Oct 2024
The Fatwā Secretary at Dār al-Iftāʾ, Dr. Hishām Rabīʿ, has criticized remarks made by a professor of comparative Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) at al-Azhar University, Dr. Suʿād Ṣāliḥ, regarding the tafkīr (ex-communication) of anyone who composes music or sings verses from the Holy Qurʾān,...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 16 Oct 2024
Media personality Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa pointed out that Salafīsm in Egypt, as well as the Ikhwān, have been partially responsible for the country’s economic deterioration.
During his talk show Ḥadīth al-Qāhira (Cairo Talk) on al-Qāhira Wa al-Nās (Cairo and the People) TV station, ʿĪsa stated, “The...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 8 Nov 2024
The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, or COP29, will be hosted this year in Azerbaijan on November 11-22 to discuss climate change issues, as well as mechanisms on how to curb them.
In order to restrict global warming to less...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 30 Oct 2024
The decision to legalize 293 churches and affiliate buildings by an ad hoc committee during its meeting on October 21 should not go unnoticed. Since the first legalization efforts in May 2018, the number of legalized churches and affiliate buildings has hit 3,453.
These numbers show progress on the...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 9 Nov 2024
The head of the Coptic Evangelical community in Egypt, Priest Dr. Andrea Zakī, said President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī has made freedom of worship a priority, praising Egypt’s “excellent” handling of sectarian strife.
On the talk show Naẓra (Vision) on the Ṣadā al-Balad TV station,” Zakī said, “Al-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 24 Nov 2024
Following the news of recent events in Amsterdam, many people have asked about my well-being. On November 7th, I participated in the official remembrance of the Kristallnacht in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. The music was beautiful, but security was intense. With police sirens in the...
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Translator Lindy Dubben
Date of source: 16 Nov 2024
Under the chairmanship of Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, the Muslim Council of Elders called on world leaders and their communities to prioritize fostering tolerance and coexistence. It also called on rejecting all forms of violence and conflict that destabilize societies and deplete...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 12 Aug 2024
Dār al-Iftāʾ published the biography of Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād and the previous positions he occupied after he was appointed new grand muftī of Egypt and chairman of the General Secretariat for Fatwā Authorities Worldwide by President ʿAbd el Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī, Nuhā Ḥurayba
Date of source: 31 Oct 2024
Following a three-day meeting, a group of bishops and metropolitans who had split from the main Ethiopian Orthodox Church established an ethnic and regional synod known as the “Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church Synod” based on a recently published canon law.
In a 16-point statement, the group said...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 13 Nov 2024
Lawyer Mortaḍa Manṣūr, the former president of al-Zamālik club, said that a verdict has been obtained in a lawsuit that was filed against producer Aḥmad al-Subkī and writer Ibrāhīm ʿĪsa, in order to ban the screening of their film al-Mulḥid (“The Atheist”) in cinemas both in and outside Egypt for “...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 25 Nov 2024
Strange and suspicious calls are promoting a so-called Abrahamic Religion, which seeks to unite the three divine religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism into one faith that would bring the Qurʾān, the Bible, and the Torah together into one book.
The calls also aim to establish new...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 23 Nov 2024
The birth anniversary of Ṭaha Ḥusayn, a master of Arabic literature who died at the age of 83 in 1973, has been honored in recent days. Ḥusayn was a pioneer of enlightenment and contemporary writing in Egypt.
The history of Dr. Ṭaha Ḥusayn is laden with great intellectual achievements, as he joined...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 4 Nov 2024
A fatwā secretary at Dār al-Iftāʾ affirmed that there is nothing in Islam that denies women the right to assume leading positions, adding that despite what some may think, there is no gender-based preference regarding this issue.
Wisām al-Khūlī stated, “There are differences among jurists about...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 29 Nov 2024
After years of fighting, Aleppo’s Christian population once again have a heavy cross to bear. In a city home to the oldest seat of the Christian faith, the return of war has worsened the burden on their shoulders, which are already exhausted from the hardships of daily life.
Last Wednesday, armed...
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Translator Jack Heron
Date of source: 1 Dec 2024
On Sunday, December 1, Sheikh Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Grand Muftī of Jerusalem and Palestine and preacher of Al-Aqṣā Mosque, condemned a decision made by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security in the right-wing occupying Israeli government, pertaining to the seizing of loudspeakers and microphones...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 15 Dec 2024
Date of source: 15 Dec 2024
Ten years ago, extremists in the streets of Syria used to chant “Alawites to coffins and Christians to Beirut.” According to what people who escaped the Syrian turmoil to the Lebanese city of Zahlé on the borders with Syria have told me when I toured the area back in 2014, the chanting has evolved...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
Date of source: 15 Dec 2024
The first international symposium, entitled “Fatwā and Achieving Intellectual Security,” has begun at the al-Azhar Conference Center under the patronage of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī. It is being organized by the General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide under the auspices of Egypt'...
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Translator ʿAmr al-Misrī
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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.