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Date of source: Monday, June 19, 2023
According to prominent Muslim scholar Shaykh ʿAbd Allah bin Bayya, Chairman of the UAE Fatwā Council and Head of the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace, the United Arab Emirates - led by President Shaykh Muḥammad bin Zāyīd Āl Nahyān - has turned into a model of “happy coexistence.”
Date of source: Thursday, March 13, 2014
A proposal to amend Article 20 of the Moroccan Personal Status Law Code, specifically concerning the marriage of minors under the age of 18, has caused division among the ruling majority and opposition groups within the country’s House of Representatives. Demands were made by the progressive...
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2023
The U.S. State Department said in a new report that religious tolerance was a “hallmark of Morocco’s history.”
Date of source: Friday, September 22, 2023
In partnership with the Euro-Mediterranean Center for the Study of Islam, al-Qādirīya al-Bōdshīshīya Ṣūfī Order is convening the 18th edition of the World Ṣūfī Forum under the rubric, “Sufism and religious and patriotic values for the establishment of a comprehensive citizenship.”
Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2023
Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmed al-Ṭayyīb, offered his sincerest condolences to King Moḥammed VI of Morocco and the Moroccan people after a deadly earthquake struck several provinces and cities in the North African country and left thousands of victims killed or wounded.
Date of source: Thursday, August 24, 2023
Grand Muftī Shawqī ʿAllām said that some people think that freedom would mean that religions, divine books, prophets, and sanctities should be insulted and that these people would have no reservations about hurting the feelings of millions of Muslims – and even non-Muslims.
Date of source: Saturday, October 8, 2022
Today, Arab countries and the Islamic world celebrate the birth of the Prophet, but the way they celebrate differs between buying sweets they are used to eating every year, preparing food and distributing it to the poor, and other rituals for celebrating this day.
Date of source: Monday, September 6, 2021
Maria Kicha is a Russian writer, a PhD in Law, a historian, and traveler. Apart from teaching at Russian State University of Justice, research of the Middle East is her key occupation. Even though she does not usually refer to herself as an Oriental Studies specialist, Maria is the author of three...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Hannah Forster, Director of the African Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies and Coordinator of the NGO Forum of the African Union,Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ of the National Council for Human Rights (Morocco), and Najī Mawlāy, Coordinator of the North African NGO Coalition, visited the NCW...
Date of source: Saturday, July 26, 2014
Moroccan authorities have banned the religious ritual of i’itikāf from taking place in mosques in the last ten days of the holy month of Ramadan, not surrendering to pressure placed on them by members of al-‘Adl w al- Ihsān (Justice and Spirituality Group) the strongest Islamist opposition group in...
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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.