Word: islam
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...success of the fraternity points to the fact that the ecumenical dialogue between Christians and Jews is now inviting participation from Moslems. The trend received much of its impetus from the Second Vatican Council's declaration "On Non-Christian Religions," which approvingly cited the common bonds of Islam and Christianity-Moslems, for example, venerate Jesus as a prophet. The Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions created a special section to encourage dialogue with Islam, and Vienna's ecumenical-minded Franziskus Cardinal Konig has lectured at Al Azhar University in Cairo. At Baghdad's Al Hikma...
Renovating Islam. Potentially, the most fruitful ground for discussion, ecumenists suggest, is not theology but the search for common religious solutions to pressing worldly problems. A notable advocate of this approach is the Benedictine monastery of Toumliline, in Morocco's Middle Atlas mountains, which for eleven years has sponsored annual meetings of Moslem and Christian thinkers from dozens of countries. The sessions deal broadly and impartially with major contemporary themes, such as the problems of youth and cities. Purpose of the meetings is to encourage Islam to face these issues from the perspective of its own traditions. Says...
...formal yoking of Christianity with either Judaism or Islam is no more than a dim eschatological hope. Yet ecumenists involved in conversations with Islam feel that there is a valuable purpose to the current talks-the clearing away of centuries of hatred and misunderstanding, the forging of friendship among faiths that face a common enemy in atheism and disbelief...
Moslems and Hindus have lived side by side in bitter, sometimes bloody enmity ever since Turkish invaders brought Islam to the Indian subcontinent 900 years ago. Last week, in a dramatic repudiation of the ancient animosity, a Moslem was elected for the first time to the presidency of predominantly Hindu India. He is Zakir Husain, 70, a former university chancellor who had been Vice President for five years under President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who did not seek reelection...
Insisting that he is not primarily a prizefighter called Cassius Clay but a minister of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the Wilderness of North America (Black Muslims) named Muhammad Ali, the world's heavyweight champion last week climaxed his 14-round title bout with selective service by refusing to be inducted into the Army. Reclassified I A after the Army rejiggered its mental tests to a new low level last year, Clay has fought ever since to win draft exemption. After losing three separate petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court and endless other legal maneuverings, Clay...