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Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2023
Grand Muftī Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām said that the development of social, behavioral, and intellectual levels in Islamic societies has changed the patterns of communication within society, and that this includes religious discourse, which is part of the societal discourse in general.
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, received the Iranian ambassador, Maḥmūd Farazandeh, at his residence in the German capital of Berlin.
Date of source: Thursday, September 7, 2023
Al-Azhar’s faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn (theology) in Ṭanṭā is holding the third international conference on the efforts of Islamic institutions in handling intellectual and social issues in today’s world.
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Some Western nations, like Sweden and Denmark, consider the insult to the Prophet Muḥammad and the burning of copies of the Holy Qurʾān as a sign of freedom of expression to boast about as a democratic pattern, but would strongly criminalize any media or channels of expression attacking...
Date of source: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, praised the role and constant efforts by Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad Ṭayyīb, to promote an enlightened religious discourse and counter hate speech.
Date of source: Monday, June 19, 2023
Salman Rushdie is a British writer and novelist of Indian descent, born on June 19, 1947. He rose to fame when he won the Booker Prize for his 1981 novel ‘Midnight’s Children’, considered his best novel yet.
Date of source: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Grand Muftī Shawqī ʿAllām said that some people think that freedom would mean that religions, divine books, prophets, and sanctities should be insulted and that these people would have no reservations about hurting the feelings of millions of Muslims – and even non-Muslims.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Four centuries have passed amidst differences among doctrines and scholars of fiqh (jurisprudence) regarding whether smoking was ḥalāl (religiously permissible) or ḥarām (religiously impermissible), but science tipped the scale in favor of impermissibility when it indicated its effects on human...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 30, 2022
A senior scholar at Dār al-Iftāʾ, Dr. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Samīʿ, said that smoking is ḥarām (religiously impermissible) and that working for companies selling cigarettes and tobacco is a sin.
Date of source: Monday, August 28, 2023
The prices of ʿUmra (lesser pilgrimage) of al-Mūlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday) of the year 2023 range between EGP25,000 to EGP28,000 (roughly $810 to $907) as the most affordable rates, revealed Ḥusām Muḥammad, a travel agent.
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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.