Date of source: Monday, March 11, 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām, has established the financial value of fidya for abstaining from fasting for one day during the holy Muslim month of Ramaḍān as EGP30.
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church thanked President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī for his congratulations to the Egyptian people on the occasion of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramaḍān and the Great Lent.
Date of source: Friday, March 15, 2024
The first Friday sermon of Ramaḍān by the Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments), released in writing on March 15, 2024, stressed the virtue and blessings of the holy fasting month, hailed as the “master of all months and the greatest of them all.”
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2024
The sacred month of Ramaḍān carries a spiritual essence that ought to inspire not only Arab and Muslim nations, but also the global community, particularly during these challenging times, in order to reflect on our collective priorities as a nation dedicated to promoting values of goodness, virtue...
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2024
Dr. Saʿd al-Dīn al-Hilālī, a renowned professor of comparative fiqh (jurisprudence) at al-Azhar University, emphasized the need for a religious discourse that fosters unity and avoids divisive tendencies, adding that fatwās represent the convictions of those issuing them, and are therefore not...
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2024
The ‘Dictionary of the Spirit: Ṣūfīsm as We Should Know it’, the latest book by author and researcher Dr. ʿAmmār ʿAlī Ḥasan, has been released by the Egyptian-Lebanese Publishing House in Cairo.
Date of source: Saturday, February 10, 2024
The Muslim Council of Elders is participating for the second time in a row with a special booth at the New Delhi Book Fair, one of the region’s largest events in terms of number of visitors, taking place from February 10 to 18.
Date of source: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
The Samāllūṭ archdiocese in the Upper Egyptian governorate of al-Minyā commemorated the 9th anniversary of the ‘Martyrs of the Homeland and Faith’ this week. These individuals were killed in Libya in 2015, between February 9 to 16.
Date of source: Thursday, February 15, 2024
On Friday, February 16, the Coptic community in Egypt commemorated the 9th anniversary of the massacre of 21 Egyptian Christians in the Libyan city of Sirte by the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or Dāʿish, in the Arabic acronym, on February 15, 2015.
Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2024
The Muslim Council of Elders booth at the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) 2024 presented its visitors with a recent publication titled ‘Al-Bayān fī Mabāḥith min ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān’ (Clarification on Research Topics from the Sciences of the Qurʾān), authored by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Wahāb Ghuzlān, a...