Date of source: Sunday, March 12, 2023
The al-Azhar conference hall hosted ceremonies to congratulate the winners of the “Heritage of Imām al-Māturīdī” research contest. The ceremony was attended by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, as well as leaders from various research organizations. The contest was implemented...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The final night of the mawlid (birthday) of al-Sayyida Zaynab was attended by large crowds at the mosque bearing her name in Cairo. The Ṣūfī orders taking part distributed food, drinks, and sweets to visitors, in addition to organizing dhikr circles and hymns. In recent years, people have been...
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2023
A Coptic delegation from the Parish of Esnā and Armant has congratulated the Orthodox Coptic inhabitants of al-Dayr village in the south of Luxor on the occasion of the annual celebration of the birth of Aḥmad ibn Idrīs. The village is home to a mosque bearing the name of the saint, whose lineage...
Date of source: Sunday, February 5, 2023
On Sunday, the shrine of Imām ʿĀlī ibn Abī Ṭālib in Najaf, Iraq announced the participation of more than two million visitors in the commemoration of the birth of Imām ʿĀlī over the weekend.
Date of source: Monday, November 7, 2022
In email correspondence. Imām Fāḍl Sulaymān responded to our earlier discussion about the Covenant of ʿUmar, also known as the Capitulations of ʿUmar since I was working on a paper on my correspondence with late Dutch scholar Dr. Hans Jansen (1942-2015). Jansen argued that the code of ‘Umar and...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
In the presence of a group of religious and political leaders, XploreNations Bible College, in partnership with the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC) , held a symposium on the doctoral thesis “Pope Shinūda III (1923-2012): a historical study”, which was obtained by the researcher in...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2022
Bahrain is preparing to welcome Pope Francis I in the coming November in his second visit to the Gulf after signing the Document of Human Fraternity in the USA in 2019, where Pope Francis met the Shaykh al-Azhar and the Council of Muslim Elders. Bahrain is known for its efforts in religious...
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Lara Gibson participated in the CAWU-Heliopolis University summer school between June 27 and July 6, 2018, and interned with our center between July 8 and October 4, 2018. Lara studied Arabic language and culture at Durham University, UK.
Date of source: Saturday, August 6, 2022
This year we celebrate the bicentenary of Champollion decoding the Rosetta Stone. The key to his success was the Coptic language, the final descendant of the Ancient Egyptian language.
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2021
Last November, an Egyptian court sentenced lawyer and intellectual Aḥmad ʿAbduh Māhir to five years in prison for “contempt of religion” because of his book The Nation’s Misguidance in the Jurisprudence of the Imams, which criticized religious heritage. The court concluded that the book violated...