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Date of source: الاثنين, كانون الثاني (يناير) 6, 2025
Renowned media figure ʿAmr Adīb has said that President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī’s statements during his visit to the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ to offer congratulations over Coptic Christmas addressed all Egyptians and went beyond mere well-wishing.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 29, 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs attended the official celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the Institute of Coptic Studies (1954 – 2024), hosted in the Papal Residence in Cairo.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2024
The former president of Cairo University, Dr. Muḥammad ʿOthmān al-Khusht has called for improvements to the means through which religious texts are interpreted and more generally the way in which religious education is organized to keep up with the modern era.
Date of source: الأربعاء, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 30, 2024
Dār al-Iftāʾ fatwā secretary, Shaykh Moḥammed Wasām, has stressed the importance of properly clarifying the historical narrations pertaining to the head of Imām Ḥussein, in light of the ongoing debate surrounding its presence in Egypt.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2024
Public Prosecutor, Muḥammad Shawqī, ordered that the individual who issued a fatwā allowing for the theft of water, electricity, and gas, be referred to a criminal court on charges of disrespecting family values in Egyptian society.
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 27, 2024
Dr. Hiba ʿŪf, a professor of Qurʾān interpretation at al-Azhar University, said using divorce to get a pension or using ʿurfī (legal but informal) marriage to gain financially are flagrant violations of Islamic and Muslim ethics.
Date of source: الجمعة, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 25, 2024
A protocol of cooperation between Egypt Healthcare Authority (EHA) and Bayt al-Zakāt, also known as the Alms and Charity House, was signed during a ceremony attended by Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, Grand Imām of al-Azhar. It focused on the treatment of low-income and uninsured patients at al-Azhar...
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 17, 2024
The Fatwā Secretary at Dār al-Iftāʾ, Dr. Hishām Rabīʿ, has criticized remarks made by a professor of comparative Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) at al-Azhar University, Dr. Suʿād Ṣāliḥ, regarding the tafkīr (ex-communication) of anyone who composes music or sings verses from the Holy Qurʾān,...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين اﻷول (أكتوبر) 6, 2024
On Sunday, October 6, the eve of the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023 incidents, Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church reiterated his calls for an “immediate ceasefire” in the region of the Middle East, as well as the urgency for the release of the hostages detained in Gaza.
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 26, 2024
“In only 23 years, the Prophet Muḥammad managed to bring mankind from darkness to light and to set up a fully-fledged Ummah (state) based on knowledge, righteousness, dignity, and humanity,” said the deputy grand imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Muḥammad al-Ḍūwaynī. “This state has spread throughout the world...
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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.