Displaying 321 - 330 of 1051.
Date of source: Friday, September 26, 2014
Dār al- Iftā’ confirmed to join terrorist and extremist groups is harām.
Date of source: Thursday, August 14, 2014
Grand imām Shaykh Ahmad al-Tayyib, Shaykh of al- Azhar, has denounced what is happening in Iraq by having different militias killing innocent people, bomb mosques and committing crimes.
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
[First published on May 17, 2014 on the website of the Institute of Middle East Studies (IMES) in Lebanon. Republished with the permission of the author and IMES in Arab-West Report]
Date of source: Wednesday, February 20, 2013
IntroductionOn January 10-11, 2013, Cairo hosted a conference that was the first of its kind in the Arab world. Titled "Support for the Ahwāz People," the conference was the first to express public Arab support for the Arab Sunnī minority living in Iran's Ahwaz region and to condemn Shīʿite Iran's...
Date of source: Monday, February 25, 2013
Dozens of thousands of people gathered in the Vatican City to hear the final public prayer ceremony of the departing Pope Benedict XVI, amid exceptional security measures and claims of plots in the Vatican. Both volunteers and elite security forces worked to ensure a safe and secure experience for...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Discontent among residents of Shaykh Zāyid district in 6 October City after spreading Shī'ah book to spread shi'ism off a number of mosques. Residents were surprised to find some people spreading brochures that spread shī'ah ideologies and praying the azān (call to prayer) in the shī'ah way.
There...
Date of source: Saturday, August 25, 2012
Al-Amr bil-Maarouf wal-Nahy an al-Munkar (AMNM), literally Commanding Virtue and Banning Vice, is the vice police Egyptians used to hear of in the more conservative Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia. Dressed in Islamic garb, its members roam the streets to check passers-by are adhering to the...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party severely slammed Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb for rejecting to provide explanations for the word “principles” in the constitution, urging him to issue a statement indicating why he insists on keeping Article II unchanged. [Hamdī Dabash, ‘Usāmah al-Mahdī,...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood is a difficult subject to tackle. Some of this is the fault of others – there appears to be significant bias against them in many quarters. Some of this is their own fault – they are a closed organization accountable to no government oversight.
Date of source: Thursday, June 14, 2012
The fatwá is commonly known in the West as a death sentence. Among Muslims, the fatwá can be among the most powerful tools of Islamic populism. On a third front, the fatwá is simply a bureaucratic function. Which definition encompasses reality?
Pages
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.