Arab World news MAKKAH — The head of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious seat of learning, called on Sunday for education reform in Muslim countries in an effort to contain the spread of religious...

BBC The Grand Imam of Egypt's top Islamic institution has called for a radical reform of religious teaching to tackle the spread of Islamic extremism. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of Cairo's al-Azhar University said that a historical...

SPA Makkah, Jumada I 04, 1436, February 23, 2015, SPA -- The International Islamic Conference, which started in Makkah yesterday under the theme "Islam and Fighting of Terrorism", resumed its sessions at the Muslim World League...

The Grand Imam Dr. Ahmad Al - Tayyeb, Sheikh Al-Azhar received H.E. Wedady Weld Seedy Heiba , ambassador of Mauritania in Cairo. During their meeting, they discussed means of cooperation between Al-Azhar and Mauritania in cultural, religious and...

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)...