Date of source: Saturday, August 23, 2014
Dr. Shawqī ‘Allām, the grand muftī, stated that Dār al- Iftā is not isolated from the needs of the Egyptian people.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Mukhtār Jum’ah, has requested that a law regulating fatwá affairs be drafted, to be presented to the Council of Supreme Scholars headed by the Azhar Shaykh Ahmad al- Tayyib.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Dār al- Iftā’ has called to coordinate the Islamic efforts to monitor the incorrect fatwás that are tarnishing the image of Islam and the Muslims and responding to it in a practical and scholarly manner.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The Azhar Shaykh, Ahmad al- Tayyib, received Dr. Khudair al- Khuzā’ī, vice president of Iraq. Khuzā’ī stated that the Islamic ummah agrees that the Azhar is the symbol for moderate thought.
Date of source: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Dr. Hammīd Abu Tālib, member of the Islamic Research Institute, stated that Dr. ‘Umar Nāssif, secretary of the Islamic Council for Preaching and Relief, decided to suspend the activities of the branch of the World Union for Muslim Scholars that is headed by Dr. Yusuf al- Qaradāwī inside Egypt
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Writing in 1999 for al-Usbūʿ newspaper, Hānī Zayyāt and Muṣṭafā Sulaymān expressed the
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
While Egyptian officials try to contain the repercussions of clashes that erupted between Muslims and Christians in the district of Dahshūr, south of Cairo, which left one killed and dozens others wounded, sectarian violence took place in al-Zaqāzīq, the capital of al-Sharqia governorate.
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Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
A state of anxiety is dominating the village of Dahshūr as the 33 Coptic families that were forced to leave their dwelling places after clashes between Muslims and Copts that left Mu’āz Muhammad Hasab Allāh dead are to return home.
President Muhammad Mursī had ordered all authorities concerned to...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
The sectarian strife in Dahshūr is certainly not the first one and probably will not be the last if Egyptians did not take a pause and look to the future.
The tragic incidents must prompt us to seek haven in the law and ruthlessly apply it on inciters who burn the whole society with their...
Date of source: Monday, August 6, 2012
Developments taking place on the lands of Egypt are not compatible with the Egyptian character that has always been resistant to attempts to break or invade it.
Does it really make sense that Egyptians gather outside the embassy of Myanmar to protest persecution and injustice against Muslims while...