Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Saturday, March 3, 2018
Shaykh Muhammad Hassān, an Islamic preacher, took 20,000 Salafists during a symposium in Beni Suef with an Italian young woman who recited the Muslim shahādah (creed) in both Arabic and English and declared her conversion to Islam amidst cheering and shrills of approval by the participants in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 28, 2017
The relationship between al-Azhar and the Vatican has witnessed several changes during the previous ten years, namely since 2006. Since then, the relationship has experience disagreement, discord, agreement, and finally, rapprochement.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Researcher Islām Biḥayrī described discussions about reconciliation with the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood as “the crisis of all crises,” from which Egypt and the surrounding region would not recover again. In a long interview with al-Dustūr, Biḥayrī said: the Brotherhood got a proper chance to...
Date of source: Monday, June 26, 2017
That beautiful mosque no longer exists in Abu Dhabi. Its name has changed from The Mosque of Muḥammad Bin Zāyid to The Mosque of the Virgin Mary or the Mother of Jesus.
Date of source: Sunday, May 21, 2017
Grand Imām Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib, shaykh of al-Azhar, said that terrorism presented Islam to the world in a barbaric and brutal light, previously unheard of throughout Muslims’ history.
Date of source: Thursday, May 18, 2017
Bishop Makārī Yūnān, head of the greater St. Murqus church in Cairo, attacked shaykh Sālim ʿAbd al-Jalīl’s remarks about the infidelity of Christians, saying that “their ideology is corrupt.”
Date of source: Saturday, March 25, 2017
A delegation from Al-Azhar visited the village of al-Muhayidāt, south of Luxor, on Sunday, led by Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayib, Shaykh of al-Azhar, and in coordination with the Islamic Research Academy in Luxor.
Date of source: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Former Deputy Shaykh of the Azhar Mahmūd ‘Āshūr categorically dismissed that the dīyah (blood money) should be offered to the martyrs’ families against their will, adding if the dīyah is accepted without any coercion then there would be nothing wrong with that.
“In premeditated murders, there has...
Date of source: Thursday, April 28, 2016
The Coptic Christian observation of Maundy Thursday (The Holy Thursday), the Holy day also known as "Thursday of Mysteries", marks the anniversary of the "Last Supper" of Christ with his disciples. According to the Christian belief, Maundy Thursday marks the day that Christ had washed the feet of...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2016
The Bahraini King Ḥamad Bin ʿĪsā Al- Khalīfah, expressed his pleasure in visiting the Cathedral of St. Mark in al-'Abbāsīyyah for the first time, praising the role of the Egyptian Church in national history.