The Secretariat of the Islamic Research Academy (IRA) emphasizes that Human Fraternity’s initiatives and building independent places of worship for non-Muslims to freely practice their religious rituals while keeping...

     The Islamic Research Academy has released a statement on the controversial calls for forming a doctrinal entity of the three divine religions under the name "the Abrahamic Religion". The statement stated that...

     His Eminence Prof. Ahmad Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, received at Al-Azhar Headquarters, her excellency Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark, to discuss ways of promoting cooperation and key global issues of...

     Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE) received a delegation from the Council of Europe Committee on Counter-Terrorism (CDCT) on Tuesday, February, 28th 2023. During the visit, Dr. Reham Salama; Executive Director...

By: Asmaa Muhammad Yusuf

       Throughout many decades, media coverage has been portraying Islam as a violent and bloody religion whose main aim is to force all people either to adopt Islam or be killed. This is done by focusing on some extremist...

     Determining one’s identity usually involves “differentiating oneself from what one is not” (Benhabib, 1996, p. 3). Identity, as a matter of fact, involves similarity (sameness) and dissimilarity (uniqueness)...