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Date of source: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
The Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, reiterated the top Sunni establishment’s role in promoting the values of dialogue, moderation, and coexistence and keeping pace with the sciences of the age and linking them to the heritage and the present.
Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2025
The Deputy of al-Azhar, Prof. Dr. Muḥammad al-Ḍuwaynī, stated that "The global Qur’ān competition organized by the Ministry of Awqāf embodies Egypt’s leading role in serving the Book of God. It will always remain the country of the Qur’ān and recitation, for it is the land of revelation upon which...
Date of source: Friday, November 21, 2025
Dr. Usāma al-Azharī, Minister of the Awqāf, said that Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād the Grand Muftī of Egypt, is fully deserving of his position and that God has enabled him to serve religion, knowledge and the nation, and that all the resources of the Ministry of Awqāf are at the service of Dār al-Iftāʾ, which...
Date of source: Friday, October 31, 2025
Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) Osāma al-Azharī extended "sincere congratulations" to President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and the "great Egyptian people" on the occasion of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), an exceptional event that restores to human consciousness the immortal...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Minister of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) Dr. Usāma al-Azharī on Tuesday (August 12) received Dr. Aḥmad al-Ḥasanāt, Grand Muftī of the Hāshemite Kingdom of Jordan, at the headquarters of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo, where they exchanged views on cooperation in the field of daʿwa...
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, September 3, 2025
In an atmosphere of fragrant faith that filled Egyptian hearts with remembrance of the birth of the Best of Creation ﷺ—an atmosphere in which the meanings of love were manifest—crowds of scholars, ministers, public figures, and worshippers gathered today, Wednesday, within the precincts of al-Azhar...
Date of source: Monday, August 25, 2025
The Ministries of Endowments [awqāf] and Education have announced a project to set up educational nurseries within mosques. The project will be implemented this summer as a pilot in the southern Egyptian governorate of Qinā. Each village or neighborhood will include one nursery within a mosque.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
In a new move to enhance cooperation among ministries, Minister of Endowments [awqāf] Dr. Usāma al-Azharī and Minister of Education & Technical Education Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf signed a protocol to launch educational nurseries inside mosques for children before the age of compulsory education.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Cairo is hosting over two days the 10th International Conference on Fatwa, organized by Egypt’s Dār al-Iftāʾ and the General Secretariat for Fatwa Authorities Worldwide, under the patronage of President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, under the title "Shaping the Wise Mufti in the Age of Artificial...
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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.