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Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2025
Egypt’s Dār al-Kutub wa al-Waṯā’iq al-Qawmīya (National Library and Archives) announced offering a limited number of copies of the Egypt Mosques encyclopedia at the Dār’s booth in the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF).
Date of source: Monday, February 3, 2025
Religious institutions are participating in the 56th session of the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) through pavilions of the Azhar, Dār al-Iftā’, and the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in a bid to spread moderate thought, boost the values of moderation and tolerance, and introduce...
Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2024
The former president of Cairo University, Dr. Muḥammad ʿOthmān al-Khusht has called for improvements to the means through which religious texts are interpreted and more generally the way in which religious education is organized to keep up with the modern era.
Date of source: Saturday, November 23, 2024
The birth anniversary of Ṭaha Ḥusayn, a master of Arabic literature who died at the age of 83 in 1973, has been honored in recent days. Ḥusayn was a pioneer of enlightenment and contemporary writing in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, November 25, 2024
Strange and suspicious calls are promoting a so-called Abrahamic Religion, which seeks to unite the three divine religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism into one faith that would bring the Qurʾān, the Bible, and the Torah together into one book.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 21, 2024
The Archbishop of the Coptic Catholic Diocese of Ṭība (Thebes), Anbā ʿAmānūʾīl ʿAyyād, participated in the Holy Book 2024 contest for elementary, preparatory, and secondary education.
Date of source: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Al-Azhar University President, Dr. Salāma Dawūd, announced that six colleges have obtained renewed accreditation. Five were accredited for the first time and thirteen academic programs were accredited at the different colleges of the university in Cairo and provinces.
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 20, 2024
The curricula development commission of Al-Azhar has decided to alter several Arabic and Islamic textbooks for students in the preparatory and secondary phases up until May 15.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Al-Azhar’s Grand Imām, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, stated that teaching children to memorize the Holy Qurʾān was his greatest wish and that he was prepared to resign from being the president of al-Azhar to fulfill this desire.
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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.