Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2024
Grand Muftī of Egypt, Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām, will participate in the 23rd session of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA) council, scheduled to take place on April 20-22 in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Date of source: Thursday, May 11, 2017
The Islamic Research Academy on Thursday, May 11, 2017, held an extraordinary meeting under Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb, to discuss the crisis sparked by cleric Dr. Sālim ʿAbd al-Jalīl’s statements regarding Christianity.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Germany's interior minister, Nancy Faeser, has called on Muslim groups in the country to explicitly condemn the October 7 attacks by Ḥamās on Israel.
Date of source: Sunday, April 14, 2024
The timing of the announcement of an agreement between Israel and Indonesia to normalize relations might have gone unnoticed under different circumstances, especially before the aggression on Gaza following the events of October 7.
Date of source: Friday, April 19, 2024
Pope Tawāḍrūs attended an event organized by the Papal Office for Projects (POP) to launch an awareness-raising document titled ‘Let the Joy be Complete,’ which addresses the risks associated with consanguineous or interfamilial marriage.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Egypt’s Institute of Coptic Studies (ICS) is a renowned educational institution dedicated to Coptic history, heritage and culture. Affiliated with the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and chaired by Pope Tawāḍrūs II of Alexandria, the ICS was established in January 1954 by the Millī (Community) Council...
Date of source: Sunday, March 17, 2024
Shaykh Khālid al-Jamāl, a preacher at the Ministry of Awqāf (religious endowments), praised the idea of the program Nūr al-Dīn (Light of Religion) by Dr. ʿAlī Jumʿa, the former grand muftī of Egypt, and said the senior scholar touched on several important topics.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
When the book ‘al-Mawāqif wa al-Mukhāṭabāt’ by al-Nafarrī was published in Cairo in 1934, the late novelist and Nobel laureate Najīb Maḥfūẓ was just 23 years old, having already graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Department of the Egyptian University, now known as Cairo University.
Date of source: Friday, April 19, 2024
The Muslim Council of Elders is participating for the first time in the 38th edition of the Foire Internationale du Livre de Tunis, or the Tunis International Book Fair, which will be held from April 19 to 28 in the Tunisian capital.
Date of source: Thursday, April 4, 2024
Led by Dr. ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd el-Hādī, the General Union of Arab Writers and the General Syndicate of the Egyptian Writers Union expressed their sincere support for the Grand Imām Aḥmad el-Ṭayyīb and his courageous and noble stance towards the Palestinian issue and what is happening in Gaza in particular...