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Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2018
Egypt’s Dār al-Iftā'will be hosting the fourth international conference on Tuesday, in the presence of hundreds of Muslim scholars and communities in the world. The conference will discuss the issues on fatwa renewal to accommodate contemporary developments. These issues will be discussed in light...
Date of source: Sunday, July 27, 2014
The Azhar and Dār al-Iftā’ will not stipulate a specific form of takbīr (the exclamation ‘Allahu Akbar’), according to puresunnah during ‘Īd al-Fitr, and in a fatwá stated that the form of takbīr used by Egyptians for a long time, as opposed to that used by the Companions of the Prophet, was...
Date of source: Thursday, July 24, 2014
The past few years have seen a large degree of chaos in the field of religious discourse in Egypt and, in particular, who has the right to issue fatwás. However, June 30th’s uprising reinstated that Dār al- iftā’, Committee of fatwá and the Committee of Da’wah Research are the only two institutions...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2014
At the religious seminar organized by the Center for Innovation in the city of Damanhūr, Dr. Shawqī ‘Allām, the Mufti of Egypt, declared that the Media Center of the National Fatwá-issuing Authority has annulled 155 extremist fatwás that called for terrorism, murder, and destruction
Date of source: Monday, July 21, 2014
A committee of intellectuals and religious scholars has been formed by Grand Imam of the Azhar, Doctor Ahmad al-Tayyib, to discuss the issue of the representation of the prophets in cinema, in response to the recent film, ‘Noah’.
Date of source: Sunday, July 20, 2014
Sheikh Sharīf al-Hawārī, member of the al- Da'wah al- Salafīah shūra “advisory” council, announced his support for the police reports filed against outspoken non-observers of Ramadan.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 2, 2014
The secretary of fatwá in Dār al- Iftā, Dr. Magdy Ashūr stated that its is incorrect to generalize the chat fatwá without asking the specialized sheikhs about it.
Date of source: Monday, September 1, 2014
The fatwá issued recently by Dār al- Iftaa, last Friday, that prohibits the chats between men and women except for necessity has stirred jokes among the youth movements and coalitions who considered the fatwa to be against the human instinct.
Date of source: Sunday, August 31, 2014
The fatwá of Dr. Yāssir al- Burhāmī, the vice president of the Da’wah al- Salafiah has stirred a debate about the “divorce of a drunk man.”
Date of source: Sunday, August 31, 2014
Dār al- Iftā’ assured that electronic conversations are not allowed between men and women who are unrelated to one another.
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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.