Date of source: Sunday, September 17, 2023
A decision to set up a new college teaching the Ḥanbalī fiqh (jurisprudence) at the World Islamic Sciences & Education University (W.I.S.E) in Jordan has raised many questions. While some view it as a plan to empty the Ḥanbalī fiqh from its content and make a new Salafism that is more appealing...
Date of source: Saturday, September 2, 2023
In association with the Masār al-Khayr (Path of Benevolence) foundation for sustainable development, the Bible Society of Jordan announced the start of a campaign to hand out packages of stationery to more than 2,000 government school pupils in the provinces of al-Karak, Mādabā and Maʿān.
Date of source: Monday, September 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.
Date of source: Saturday, August 12, 2023
A professor of Islamic studies at the German University of Münster, Dr. ʿĀṣim Ḥifnī, said that the renewal of religious discourse is the issue of the hour, and has been for perhaps every hour, since Islam was revealed to this day.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 5, 2023
The first scholarly forum on Imām al-Shāfʿī and his school of thought was held at the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Girls at al-Azhar University in Banī Sūwayf, according to the faculty dean, Dr. Ḥanān ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
Date of source: Sunday, July 9, 2023
Egyptian President ͑Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī has made reforming educational and religious discourse a top priority since he was elected and officially assumed office in July 2014. This was in response to concerns about terrorism and the rise to power of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
Date of source: Friday, July 7, 2023
The National Center for Translation under Dr. Karma Sāmī announced the bestseller books for the month of June 2023, of which the first was Thomas Merton’s ‘An Introduction on Christian Mysticism’, translated by Karam ͑Abbās.
Date of source: Monday, October 19, 2020
The Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo held a session today to elect a new president. Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāf ͑ī was elected for a third four-year term.
Date of source: Saturday, January 1, 2022
A member of Al-Azhar’s Council of Senior Scholars and the Muslim Council of Elders, Dr. Ḥasan al-Shāf ͑ī, was awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam for the year 2022, shared with the former president of Tanzania.
Date of source: Saturday, July 29, 2023
On Saturday, Pope Tawāḍrūs II of the Coptic Orthodox Church met with members of the Société d'Archéologie Copte (SAC) and several specialists who obtained Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Coptic studies at Egyptian universities during the past two years.