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Date of source: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
A cleric of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs said Egypt has lost a great man and scholar who offered much for the Muslim nation and the students of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad ʿUmar Hāshim, a member of al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars.
Date of source: Sunday, September 21, 2025
"What is the relationship of al-Azhar to Ḥamās? Is the Azhar a frame of reference for the Ḥamās organization?" Colonel Ḥātim Ṣābir wondered on his Facebook page, addressing ʿĪsa.
Date of source: Monday, October 13, 2025
Ramaḍān is the biggest Islamic festival of the year for Muslims all over the world, with fasting (ṣawm) being one of the five pillars of Islam. Taking place in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, Muslims are obligated to observe a period of fasting during daylight hours, in which one must...
Date of source: Thursday, August 14, 2025
The case has been closely followed by Moroccan media. Betty Lachgar is a well-known activist in the Kingdom. For over sixteen years, she has been advocating for individual freedoms, defending a "radical," anti-religious, and controversial form of feminism. She is also the coordinator of the...
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2025
In 2024, the Ministry of the Interior, then led by Gérald Darmanin (member of Renaissance, a political party typically described as liberal and centrist or center-right), commissioned a group of senior officials, more precisely a retired diplomat and a prefect, to conduct in-depth research on...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) Dr. Osāma al-Azharī said Dr. ʿAlī Gomʿa, the former grand muftī of Egypt and member of the Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars, had a great influence on his character.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Dār al-Iftā’, in an official statement, explained that Islam's prohibition of invading others' privacy is not limited to cases of breaching modesty or looking at private parts but extends beyond that to include all forms of infringement on an individual's privacy, whether through image, word or any...
Date of source: Thursday, October 2, 2025
According to recent statistics from 2023, the rate of women's participation in the labor force in Arab countries reached 19.8%, while the employment rate for men reached 74%.
This raises an important question in this context: the reasons for the stark disparity between the two groups, which...
Date of source: Sunday, October 5, 2025
Egypt’s Dār al-Iftā’ resumed sessions at mosques nationwide in coordination with the Ministry of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) as part of its awareness-raising role to spread moderate ways of thinking, rectify misconceptions and encounter some unfavorable phenomena within the society.
Date of source: Monday, March 17, 2025
The Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, said that the Islamic Sharīʿa is applied in Islamic societies in all its forms, not exclusively in relation only to ḥudūd (punishments for specific crimes determined by the Qur’ān and the ḥadīth), as some extremist groups propagate.
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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.