The US State Department spokesperson, Mathew Miller, announced that the US has decided not to restrict military aid to an Israeli battalion accused of human rights violations after it concluded that they were...

     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns in the strongest terms the brutal bombardment carried out by the Zionist entity, Saturday at dawn, against Al-Tabi’in school, which shelters displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in...

     Al-Azhar Al-Sharif strongly condemns the disrespectful portrayal of Jesus (PBUH) during the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Paris, which has sparked widespread global condemnation. The depiction of Jesus in such a...

      Al-Azhar Al-Sharif condemns in the strongest words the heinous terrorist massacre committed by the criminal Zionists, targeting the innocent displaced persons at Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza. Through a statement released on...

     The Indonesian President Joko Widodo welcomed His Eminence Prof. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, at the Merdeka Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday. The two leaders discussed ways to enhance cooperation...

As we are about to bid farewell to 2020, we need to reflect on a dilemma that has swept through the whole world, Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Starting at the beginning of this year, the COVID-19 pandemic –if we may say- revealed the true...

            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...