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by Mohammad Jamil
September 04, 2010
It is true that cultural conflicts are increasing and are more dangerous today than at any time in history. Yet the fundamental reason for the turmoil and tension in the world is the absence of a just economic order
Power has its own dynamics, and there are many instances in history when [...]
by Terry Mathis
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Sacred Scriptures and Interfaith Dialogue
Abstract
M. Fethullah Gülen encourages Muslims to be tolerant and accepting of people in other religions and to enter in to interfaith dialogue with them. He succeeds in doing this because the Qur’an sets the ground for this interfaith stance. Christians and Jews are often not aware [...]
by Turan KAYAOGLU
While the appeal of the “dialogue of civilizations” is on the rise, its sources, functions, and consequence cause controversy within and between faith communities. Amidst these controversies, some religious leaders have attempted to clarify the religious foundations of the dialogue of civilizations. Among them is Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the [...]
by Alison Cies,
When a new venture at Columbia University brought together 30 Muslim and Jewish entrepreneurs from the United States, the United Kingdom and France for a cross-cultural dialogue, the focus was on something other than interfaith work. They talked business.
Then, somewhere amid the conversations about best business practices and social entrepreneurship, the difficult issues [...]
by Tzvi Freeman
I want to tell you about the greatest discovery of the millennium. It wasn’t the printing press. It wasn’t America. It wasn’t even vaccination. The greatest discovery of the millennium happened near its very end.
It was the discovery of Planet Earth.
We were trying to get away from Planet Earth — ever since [...]
by Hermann Krause
The world religious summit was definitely one of the biggest events of its kind that ever took place in Moscow. The unique meeting was initiated by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexi the Second.
Its main objective was however not really religious in nature, but rather political. The world’s religious leaders worked out ideas about [...]
By Jennifer Siegel
Seeking to build on the success of their own longstanding dialogue, Jewish and Catholic leaders have held several discussions in recent weeks about launching more intensive interfaith talks with Muslims.
“Before it was considered like something nice to do,” said Father Patrick Dubois, the French bishops’ liaison to the Jewish community in France. “Now [...]
by Kenan Cetinkaya
E-mail: kchetinkaya@hotmail.com
THE SANCTITY OF WATER IN CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS (ESPECIALLY IN ISLAM)
Introduction
In this paper, I am going to examine sanctity of water in detail in Christianity in terms of using in the first sacrament; Baptism. Afterward I will compare water’s role in Christianity and Islam.
In [...]
NEW YORK (JTA) — A landmark statement by leading Muslims intellectuals calling for Jewish-Muslim dialogue has won broad support from Jewish leaders, even as some elements and some signatories were deemed problematic.
Unlike earlier efforts at dialogue, which often have sought to discourage discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the statement openly acknowledges the conflict’s centrality to [...]
By Emily Grotta
Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post has been observing the dialogue between members of a synagogue and a mosque in the Washington area. She writes:
Such dialogue is often a balancing act: hopeful yet guarded; genuine yet superficial; teetering on the precipice of the most emotional subjects but often stepping [...]
Islam: Pluralism and Interfaith Dialogue
by Shah Abdul Halim
In the recent past several seminars were organized in the country on interfaith dialogue. These seminars made great contribution in strengthening already existing communal harmony and exposing the hollowness of the propaganda of the interested quarter to malign and defame Bangladesh. These seminars however failed to address the [...]
Children of Abraham – Jews and Muslim
by Gul Rukh Rahman
05 January 2006
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Children of Abraham – Jews and Muslim
Gul Rukh Rahman *
New York – Jews and Muslims have been tied together by culture and history for centuries. For over a thousand years both peoples have contributed to the Middle Eastern civilization. But this relationship has become [...]
Dermot A. Lane
The following is a Jewish-Christian Muslim dialogue on Jesus in the form of three brief review articles on a book and a response by the book’s author. The book is by a Christian, and the reviews are by a
Jew, another Christian, and a Muslim. The book at the basis of this dialogue is [...]
I. Introduction
Twenty years ago, during the period between the second and third sessions of the Second Vatican Council, two
panels of experts were given the task of drafting texts on Islam to be included in the evolving documents on the church and on ecumenism. The material, discussed early in the third session, was incorporated into a [...]
Full Text of the Madina Charter
1. This is a document from Muhammad the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), governing relations between the Believers i.e. Muslims of Quraysh and Yathrib and those who followed them and worked hard with them. They form one nation — Ummah.
2. [...]
Muslims and Jews are merging in Washington, even praying at each other’s institutions the deputy director of one of Washington’s biggest Muslim communities told Al Arabiya on Monday.
Khaled Iqbal, deputy director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) said the society has been cooperating with synagogues for the last 12 years.
Every Friday, ADAMS holds [...]
The Qur’an always accepts forgiveness and tolerance as basic principles, so much so that “the servants of the All-Merciful” are introduced in the following manner:
And the servants of (God) the All-Merciful are those who move on the Earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say: “Peace.” (Al-Furqan 25:63)
When they meet hollow words [...]
The attitude of believers is determined according to the degree of their faith. I believe that if the message is put across properly, then an environment conducive to dialogue will be able to emerge in our country and throughout the world. Thus, as in every subject, we should approach this issue as indicated in the [...]
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
A Common Word between Us and You
(Summary and Abridgement)
Muslims and Christians together make up well over half of the world’s population. Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. The future of the world [...]
by Akbar Ahmed and Judea Pearl
Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad’s recent declaration that Israel should be “wiped off the map”–far from being an isolated case of rhetorical tantrum–is a cry for help, a demand for powerful international dialogue between Muslims and Jews. Those fiery words delivered to thousands of students at a “World Without Zionism” conference [...]
Toward Jewish-Muslim Dialogue
By: Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
ACUTE political interests and emergencies tend to unite even the most unlikely partners in strange bed-fellowships. Permanent and solid alliances, however, are usually concluded on the strength of long-range identical goals predicated upon and rooted in similarities and identities of ideologies, cultures and, also, religious affinities.
Dialogue, if it is not [...]
Jewish-Muslim dialogue gets a boost in Kazakhstan
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The scene at the Presidential Palace in Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, has a decidedly other-century feel to it. Some 30 rabbis in black suits and hats file past delicate vases, china and ornamental swords that bring to mind the Great Silk Road and Kublai [...]
By Jason Barker
As stated in the previous article, interreligious dialogue consists of “discussions for mutual understanding held among differing religious bodies.”1 This vague definition does not, however, provide the guidelines within which formal interreligious dialogue should be held. How can Christians dialogue with members of other religions without compromising their beliefs and lapsing into syncretism, [...]
by Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
In the fall of 2002, after a four-year hiatus, I returned to the work of interfaith relations and discovered a new world. The events of Sept. 11, 2001 had dramatically transformed many aspects of American life, including — I soon learned — the field of interreligious dialogue. I had spent years keeping up [...]
This past weekend, I had the privilege of participating in a dialogue at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas with the poet, novelist and comparative literature professor Mohja Kahf.
I had read about Mohja in 2007 in an article in the New York Times and heard her interviewed by Deborah Amos on NPR. This [...]
Commentary by Adil Salahi
A report that Abdullah ibn Amr, a companion who was well versed in Hadith had a sheep slaughtered. He repeatedly asked his servant: “Have you sent some meat as a present to our Jewish neighbour?” When he said that several times, he added: “I have heard Allah’s messenger (Pbuh) saying: “Gabriel has [...]
by El-Sayed M. Amin
The neighbor holds a special status in Islam. Islam encourages Muslims to treat their neighbors in a gentle way that reflects the true and genuine spirit of Islam as exemplified in its tolerant aspect especially with people of other faiths. It makes no difference whether the neighbors are Muslim or non-Muslim. ‘A’ishah, [...]
Religious Tolerance before it was Hip
Medieval Muslims, Jews, and Christians built a rich culture
By Jane Lampman
Once upon a time long ago in a place on the edge of the known world, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in peace and created a vibrant, extraordinary civilization.
A fairy tale for our troubled times? Much more intriguing, this [...]
Turkish Toleration
One of the most noteworthy attributes of Ottoman Turkish rule was Ottoman toleration of different religious beliefs. The Turks of the Ottoman Empire were Muslims, but they did not force their religions on others. Christians and Jews in the Empire prayed in their own churches or synagogues, taught their religion in their own schools [...]
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