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Date of source: Monday, March 19, 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.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 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...
Date of source: Friday, March 24, 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...
Date of source: Thursday, July 6, 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).
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 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.
Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Imām Abū Ḥanīfa's influence lives on to this day through his fiqh (jurisprudence), scholarly works, books, and the doctrine he established to his name. He was controversial and had a mind constantly pulsing with thought as his mentors were the ṣahāba (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Companions) and their...
Date of source: Sunday, April 16, 2023
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Shaykh Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, has spoken on the need to prioritize the correct qualities and holding good ethics in high regard when choosing a wife or husband. Whilst speaking on an episode of his daily Ramaḍān television show, al-Imām al-Ṭayyīb, the Shaykh cited several...
Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2023
Dr. Jamāl Sanad al-Suwaydī, Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research, has released a new book entitled: "The Document on Human Fraternity: Towards Peaceful Coexistence and a Conflict-Free World."
Date of source: Monday, September 26, 2022
Yūsuf Al-Qaradāwī, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, died today, Monday, after a long struggle with illness.
Al-Qaradāwī was born in September 1926 in the village of Ṣafṭ Turāb, the center of al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā, in the Gharbiyya Governorate.
Date of source: Friday, July 29, 2022
“I have an Islamic library rarely had by even a Muslim shaykh to the point that I buy modern books of tafsīr (exegesis), including those of al-Shaʿrāwī.”
Pope Shinūda III, 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, was famous for this response when asked a Muslim him about the claims 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.