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Date of source: Saturday, September 21, 2024
Shaykh Ṣalāḥ al-Tījānī has recently came under public scrutiny after a teenage girl named Khadīja accused him of sexually harassing her, sharing screenshots of their chat.
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: Tuesday, September 3, 2024
As the tenure of the current councils on divorce and second marriage expired, Pope Tawāḍrūs issued an order replacing the heads and members of the regional clerical personal status councils dealing with these issues.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Dr. Ashraf al-Rāʿī will soon publish a new book titled “Electronic Crimes - Objective Rulings on Crimes of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence,” which discusses Jordanian statute 17/2023 on electronic crimes.
Date of source: Sunday, August 11, 2024
After a man was found guilty of contempt of religion, the Port Said (Pūr Saʾīd) Criminal Court, presided over by Chief Justice Jawdat Mīkhāʾīl Qiddīs, sentenced him to three years of harsh imprisonment.
Date of source: Friday, July 12, 2024
During a mourning session for a deceased man, Shaykh Hishām Samīr ʿAntar was reciting lines from the Qurʾān as is customary. However, he drew criticism for seemingly moving his body in an obscene manner that is not appropriate for Qurʾān recitation.
Date of source: Monday, August 5, 2024
Once again, proposed changes to the personal status law are causing a rift in parliament, uproar in the media, and heated debates on social media.
Date of source: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Arab-West-Journal (AWJ) was an excellent attempt by our forner editor Jenna Ferrecchia to develop a journal to publish original work composed primarily by our undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate interns, with other contributions from staff and notable authors. EBSCO showed interest to add...
Date of source: Friday, February 12, 2016
Fūʾād Bilqāsimī, the national leader of the Islamist organization Sharia4Belgium and a Moroccan-Belgian, has chosen to take his case to the Belgian Supreme Court in protest of a ruling made by the Court of Appeal a few weeks prior, which sentenced Bilqāsimī to 12 years in prison and a fine of €30,...
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...
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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.