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Date of source: Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) and the Ministry of Health successfully held a symposium on the issue of smoking, which ended with the Grand Muftī of the Kingdom of Jordan formally banning smoking by issuing a fatwa designating it as ḥarām (religiously prohibited).
Date of source: Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, said cooperation was in progress between al-Azhar and the Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments) to obtain a law criminalizing fatwās issued by unaccredited scholars.
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2024
Anbā Kyrillos was born Sīdārūs Marqus Jirjis in al-Naghāmīsh village of al-Balyanā town in the Sūhāj province of southern Egypt, but his year of birth is not accurately known. He was brought up by his father to be a devout Christian, and memorized the church hymns and psalms from a young age, and...
Date of source: Thursday, September 19, 2024
On Monday, September 16, which was the occasion of al-Mawlid al-Nabawī (the Prophet Muḥammad’s Birthday), Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, Grand Imām of al-Azhar, made a speech that triggered wide-scale controversy in religious and media circles.
Date of source: Saturday, October 26, 2024
According to a legislator, international accords governing refugee conditions were consulted to develop the new draft law on foreigner asylum to Egypt, which the House of Representatives Defense & National Security Committee recently adopted.
Date of source: Friday, October 18, 2024
After a full examination of the body at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv (Abū Kabīr), the Hebrew newspaper, Ynet, announced that the Israeli occupation authorities have taken the body of Yaḥyā al-Sinwār to a classified location to keep.
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Arab-West-Journal (AWJ) was an excellent attempt by our forner editor Jenna Ferrecchia to develop a journal to publish original work composed primarily by our undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate interns, with other contributions from staff and notable authors. EBSCO showed interest to add...
Date of source: Sunday, February 25, 2024
Monṣif Sulaymān, the Coptic Orthodox Church’s legal advisor and a member of the House of Representatives’ Religious Affairs Committee, anticipates the official promulgation of the personal status law for Copts in June, pending the completion of the Justice Ministry’s review.
Date of source: Sunday, January 7, 2024
Al-Bayt al-Muḥammadī (Muḥammadan House) foundation for Ṣūfīsm studies and heritage science wrapped up preparations to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the pioneering Imām, Shaykh Muḥammad Zakī Ibrāhīm, at the foundation’s headquarters in the Cairo district of al-Moqaṭṭam.
Date of source: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Throughout 2023, al-Azhar magazine has published several articles by renowned scholars of al-Azhar in Egypt and the Arab world on a host of important topics, such as studies of the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, heritage, discourse renewal issues, scholarly studies of the sharīʿa, history, and the Arabic...
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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.