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Date of source: Saturday, September 9, 2023
Lebanon’s Supreme Islamic Sharīʿa Council extended the tenure of Grand Muftī Shaykh ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Diryān for an additional five years. His term was supposed to expire in one and a half years, which is when he reaches the legal age of 73, but this extension has allowed him to stay in his post until...
Date of source: Saturday, April 15, 2023
Remarks by the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Shaykh Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, expressing his opinion that altering the religious rules on verbal divorce would require a new sharī ͑ a consensus have triggered controversy in Egypt, where religious opinions interfere with social requirements.
Date of source: Monday, May 24, 2021
Amid rising tensions with Ethiopia, Egyptian-Sudanese forces will begin conducting joint military exercises this Wednesday.
Date of source: Saturday, January 16, 2021
Hours after Washington classified the “Ḥasm” Movement in Egypt and the “Wilāyat Sīnāʾ” Organization, which is affiliated with ISIS, as foreign terrorist organizations, the American State Department announced placing Egyptians Yaḥyā al-Sayyid Ibrāhīm Mūsā and ʿAlāʾ ʿAlī Muḥammad al-Samāḥī on the...
Date of source: Sunday, August 23, 2020
As al-Azhar and the Council of Senior Scholars escalate their opposition to a bill regulating the Dār al-Ifṭā’, Shaykh of al-Azhār Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib announced on Saturday that he had put in a request with the head of Parliament, ʿAlī ʿAbd al-ʿĀl, to attend the Monday plenary session, which will be...
Date of source: Friday, April 10, 2020
An incident of bullying directed at an Egyptian doctor at al-Ismāʿīliyyah Fever Hospital (eastern Cairo) sparked a wave of criticism in Egypt against the bullies, especially after state institutions celebrated the efforts of doctors in combating the “Coronavirus” pandemic and cheered them on as “...
Date of source: Saturday, July 4, 2020
The Grand Mufti of Egypt Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām said that the Muslim Brotherhood and its dependents are merely a tool to divide Egyptians, leading to self-destruction. He went on to explain that the jurists [al-fuqahāʾ] decided that the rule of political power is a social contract between the people...
Date of source: Saturday, July 4, 2020
Recently Egyptian society has been preoccupied with claims circulating on social media related to incidents of “rape and harassment” of girls by one young man, calling for official legal action against him.
Date of source: Saturday, April 11, 2020
Pope Tawāḍrūs II said that the world is currently enduring difficult circumstances as the number of people infected with the Coronavirus increases. We face this situation for the first time but we say with warm hearts “Heal the sick“. In his sermon, coinciding with the Last Friday of the Great Lent...
Date of source: Saturday, March 24, 2007
The article talks about the conflicts between Azhar scholars about the English interpretations of the Qur’ān by Iranian-American lecturer who suggests avoiding using certain words in Qur’ān used to justify the violation against the Muslim woman.
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.