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Date of source: Thursday, April 18, 2019
The Islamic Research Academy has started publishing its series on the Islamic sciences on its official website through the al-Azhar portal in order to make its contents accessible to the reader in Egypt and abroad and achieve more effective cultural communication between al-Azhar and people from...
Date of source: Thursday, July 4, 2019
All streams of political Islam are competing for the need to apply the punishments under the Islamic law, which includes the so-called al-Ḥudūd al-Sharʿiyah, as a divine system that cannot be replaced by penal systems.
In the experience of the Muslim Brotherhood's rule of Sudan, which lasted from...
Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2019
Dr. Ṭāriq Manṣūr writes about his personal reflections on the meaning of religious tolerance as seen from Islam and Christianity in Egypt. He focuses on examples from the Prophet’s life and the Quran [al-Qurān] that support religious tolerance from an Islamic perspective.
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Speaking at the Forum for "Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies" in Abu Dhabi, Grand Mufti Dr. Shawqī ʿAllām called for launching a special international "Charter of the New Alliance of Virtue", to defend all houses of worship. Such a charter would take necessary measures and mechanisms to protect...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2019
The Office for the Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar announced the launching of the Forum of Senior Scholars under the title "Sunnah between criticism of the chain of transmission [al-Sanad] and criticism of the reported text [al-Matn]: provisions, rules, and effects." The forum will be held tomorrow, after...
Date of source: Monday, November 11, 2019
Muslims and Christians participating in building a church. A Christian calligrapher drawing the names of God in mosques. A Muslim building a mosque in the name of the Virgin Mary. Each one of these is one message after another that the people of Egypt are sending to the world to emphasize love...
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2019
Dr. Naẓīr ʿAyād, Secretary General for the Islamic Research Academy, said that the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad marked the birth of mercy, love, and dignity, indicating that the morals of the Prophet before the revelation of the Quran [al-Qurān] had a huge influence in spreading the call to Islam...
Date of source: Saturday, November 9, 2019
The birth of the Prophet Muḥammad is a witness for love and veneration of the Prophet, and its celebration is something exemplary and legitimate. Muslims have been celebrating it throughout the ages, and scholars have agreed on its goodness. That was stated by the Office of Dār al-Iftāʾ regarding...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Russian intern Yana Kabirova interned with the Center for Arab-West Understanding between December 10 and December 31, 2018. Her chief interest was in extremism in the Muslim world and thus we introduced her to Professor Abdallah Schleifer, a prominent Middle East expert, chief editor of The Muslim...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Prof. Emeritus Abdallah Schleifer (84) and Prof. Emeritus Shems Friedlander (79) both served in the Department of Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and obtained the title 'professor,' not because of their academic work (they had none) but because both were acclaimed...
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