In collaboration with the Cairo Center for Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA), Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) received a delegation of university students participating in a peace...

     As a part of the Egyptian diplomacy's efforts to unify visions and develop the capabilities of its cadres, the General Director of Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE), Reham Salama, gave a lecture to the...

       Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) Participated in a specialized workshop titled “Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills and Digital Awareness for Young Muftis” as Part of Egypt’s Dar...

     Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) participated in a workshop entitled "Developing Ethical Frameworks for the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supporting Fatwa Work," organized by the Global...

     A bullet proved swifter than his legendary footwork. Suleiman Al-Obeid – celebrated as ‘Pelé' of Palestine’ for his dazzling skills – did not fall in the glory of sport, but while waiting in a...

            Islamophobia is one of the worst problems that beset Muslims in the West. This phenomenon, which has many negative impacts on communal integrity, must be countered and rejected,...

    Under the Sharia, threats, regardless of whether they are made seriously, in jest or in gesture receive emphatic prohibition. The term "threatening" (Ar. tahdi̅d) can rarely be found in the classical juristic manuals, yet...

     Takfi̅r basically means to attribute the state of disbelief (kufr) to a person. Kufr, according to a definition given by Ibn Ḥazm, means to deny something that God has made a constituent part of belief, and that such denial...

    In 17 AH/637 AD, and on Abū Mūsa al-Ashʻri’s  advice, the second Rightly Guided Caliph ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb decided to establish the year in which the Prophet immigrated to Madīnah as the beginning of the Islamic...

(1) Seditious Speech (fitnah-inciting speech)