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Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2023
Hundreds of followers of the different Ṣūfī Orders celebrated the mūlid (birthday anniversary) of the al-ʿĀrif Billāh al-Sayyid Aḥmed al-Badawī in squares near al-Aḥmedī Mosque in the city of Ṭanṭā, the capital of al-Gharbīya province.
Date of source: Friday, June 16, 2023
Adherents of the historic Ṣūfī leader, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī, went in great numbers into the mountainous valley of Ḥumaythira, in the city of Marsā ʿAlam, to visit his mausoleum.
Date of source: Monday, September 4, 2023
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī was one of the greatest imāms of Egypt, known for his scholarly contributions to Islam, such as Tafsīr al-Jalālayn, in addition to other books related to the rules of the Qurʾān.
Date of source: Friday, August 11, 2023
Islamic preacher Muʿiz Masʿūd said he did not like to think about any type of fame, except the one with sublime principles and ethics, adding that fame has offered him an opportunity for Ṣūfī mysticism.
Date of source: Friday, July 7, 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.
Date of source: Friday, July 28, 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-...
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2023
A religious writer discusses his personal viewpoint that the difference between true Ṣūfism and some of today’s Ṣūfīs is like the difference between the great religion of Islam and today’s Muslims.
Date of source: Friday, March 24, 2023
During a live broadcast on Facebook, the writer Yūsuf Zīdān discussed his reasons for writing the introduction to the book al-Muqadimmah fī al-Taṣawuf. The book on Ṣūfism is the first that he has authored, however, in his previous work, he has written on a wide variety of fields including Islamic...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The final night of the mawlid (birthday) of al-Sayyida Zaynab was attended by large crowds at the mosque bearing her name in Cairo. The Ṣūfī orders taking part distributed food, drinks, and sweets to visitors, in addition to organizing dhikr circles and hymns. In recent years, people have been...
Date of source: Saturday, July 24, 2021
The General Chiefdom of Sufi Orders thanked President ʿAbd al-Fatāḥ al-Sīsī for his directive to renovate the shrines of Ahl al-Bayt (the family of prophet Muḥammad,) and to develop their surrounding infrastructure. The shrines include the mosques of al-Sayyida Nafīsa, al-Sayyida Zaynab, and al-...
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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.