Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, received the Iranian ambassador, Maḥmūd Farazandeh, at his residence in the German capital of Berlin.
Date of source: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 11, 2023
A member of the House of Representatives said that the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, has shed light on the Palestinian issue for the world to confront and address, describing the top Sunni cleric’s speech in a conference in Germany as “historic and important.”
Date of source: الأحد, أيلول (سبتمبر) 10, 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar and leader of the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, criticized foreign interference in the internal affairs of countries, particularly Arab countries. He stated that this interference had the aim of turning countries into a flourishing market for arms trade,...
Date of source: السبت, أيلول (سبتمبر) 9, 2023
Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Sharīʿa Council extended the tenure of Grand Muftī Shaykh ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Diryān for an additional five years. His term was supposed to expire in one and a half years, which is when he reaches the legal age of 73, but this extension has allowed him to stay in his post until...
Date of source: الخميس, أيلول (سبتمبر) 7, 2023
On September 3, 2013, Amman hosted dozens of guests from all over the world upon an invitation from King ʿAbdullāh II of Jordan to attend the conference on challenges facing Arab Christians, in which the monarch stressed that, “Defending the Arab Christian identity is not a luxury, but a duty.”
Date of source: الأربعاء, آب (اغسطس) 16, 2023
The Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs in Palestine (HCC) urged the representatives and heads of churches, as well as the international community, to take whatever measures necessary to condemn Israel’s crimes and encroachments on the Christians’ sanctities and properties in...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 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: الجمعة, حزيران (يونيو) 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: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 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: الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 4, 2023
On Monday (September 4), Dr. Sāmī Fawzī, Archbishop of the Province of Alexandria for the Episcopal/Anglican Church in Egypt, inaugurated the languages department at the Minūfīya Episcopal School.