Date of source: Sunday, July 6, 2014
Shaykh Yūssuf al- Qaradawī, head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, stated that the declaration of the Caliphate by ISIS is null and void according to sharī’ah and it does not serve the Islamic project.
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2018
Today, a seminar is to be held at the AUC on Dr. Maī Hawās’s book “The Influence of Islamic Creeds on the Islamic Architecture of Mosques”.
The book presents a comparison between the mosques or schools from the Safavid era in Iraq and Iran, and the Bahri / Bahriyya Mamluks [al-Mamālīk al-Baḥariyya...
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: Monday, November 5, 2018
This text is a translation of the Menno Simons lecture of Prof. Dr. Hans Achterhuis, November 2014. It was later published under the title “Vreedzaam vechten is de weg” (Peaceful fighting is the way) in the magazine 'Streven,' October 2015. It later was translated for and published by Arab-West...
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Thinker Jamāl As’ad said the decision to appoint the first Coptic vice-president is a right one, adding Marqus is a good Egyptian patriot known for his eagerness to serve the masses.
“Marqus’s appointment is not an overture to Copts. Persons who say that he would focus his attention on Copts just...
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-‘Awā, the former presidential contender, is still considering an offer by the president to occupy the post of advisor for social justice affairs after a meeting between the two at the presidential palace.
The nomination obtained a thumbs-up by the Revolution Union, which...
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Fasting is not just about refraining from several joys or temporarily controlling some instinct or lust but rather an indication that man is greater than just becoming a being that only eats, drinks and breads. [Yūhannā Qultah, al-Musawwar, July 26, p. 82] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
During the past 50 years of our history, the state of affairs in Egypt aggravated due to a despotic propensity that marked the prevalent way of thinking, doubled with the absence of national spirit and sane social development, writes Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb in an opinion...
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Fasting is not just about refraining from several joys or temporarily controlling some instinct or lust but rather an indication that man is greater than just becoming a being that only eats, drinks and breads. [Yūhannā Qultah, al-Musawwar, July 26, p. 82] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Dr. Wahīd ‘Abd al-Majīd, the official spokesman for the constituent assembly and a member of the panel’s drafting committee, said the rights & freedoms committee submitted several articles – 35 – to the drafting committee for debating. [Sālih Shalabī, al-Misryūn, July 26, p. 1] Read text in...