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Date of source: Monday, June 22, 2020
Former French-Moroccan CAWU intern Dina Bouchkouch spoke with students at the webinar of June 22-24, 2020, about her personal experiences with interfaith/intercultural dialogue and why CAWU has been so important to her own personal development. This text was recorded and edited by the different...
Date of source: Friday, August 9, 2024
There was wide-scale controversy in Iraq after the Ministry of Justice proposed a draft law to lower the age of marriage to 9 years of age for females and 15 years of age for males.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
The dean of al-Azhar’s Faculty for Islamic & Arabic Studies for Girls, Dr. Ḥanān ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, stressed the significance of department selection for female students aspiring to become muftīs.
Date of source: Monday, May 13, 2024
Following a recent controversy surrounding the announcement by prominent Egyptian intellectuals of the establishment of the Takwīn foundation, an organisation which aims to promote “enlightened religious thinking” and “intellectual reform,” social media pages shared a video claiming to feature...
Date of source: Saturday, May 4, 2024
Since the call for religious reform until this day, we have not reached an agreement about the purpose of this step.
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām, will participate in the 23rd session of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) council, scheduled to take place on April 20-22 in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Date of source: Friday, March 1, 2024
Dr. Saʿd al-Dīn al-Hilālī, a renowned professor of comparative fiqh (jurisprudence) at al-Azhar University, emphasized the need for a religious discourse that fosters unity and avoids divisive tendencies, adding that fatwās represent the convictions of those issuing them, and are therefore not...
Date of source: Saturday, February 24, 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām, expounded on five important fatwās (religious edicts) during his weekly appearance on the show Naẓra (Vision) on the Ṣadā al-Balad TV station with talk show host, Ḥamdī Rizq.
Date of source: Friday, January 19, 2024
Under the auspices of Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, al-Azhar is taking part in the 55th edition of the CIBF for the eighth year running with a special pavilion in the event that continues for two weeks from January 24 to February 6 at Egypt's International Exhibitions Center (EIEC) in the 5th Settlement.
Date of source: Monday, January 15, 2024
Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy, Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyyād, said that Islamic scholarly science was founded through communication between the Islamic sharīʿa and the understanding of reality, which includes theology, Ṣūfīsm, and logic as theories that embody this understanding.
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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.