Tag: Palestinian Territories

  • We can­not afford to main­tain these ancient prej­u­dices against Islam

    In the 12th cen­tu­ry, Peter the Ven­er­a­ble, Abbot of Cluny, ini­ti­at­ed a dia­logue with the Islam­ic world. ​“I approach you not with arms, but with words,” he wrote to the Mus­lims whom he imag­ined read­ing his book, ​“not with force, but with rea­son, not with hatred, but with love.” Yet his trea­tise was enti­tled Sum­ma­ry of…

  • What I Did Not Say And The Mis­sion­ary Myopia

    What I Did Not Say And The Mis­sion­ary Myopia

    There are those who say that lying and deceiving is at the soul of all crime and that Christianity epitomizes these traits more than any other faith. As proof of their assertion they often quote Paul of Tarsus, arguably the true founder of Christianity, who is recorded to have said, "But if through my falsehood…

  • Islam and Co-Existence

    Islam and Co-Existence

    The Interfaith Coalition of Nashville organized this year's interfaith conference in the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. Judaism was represented by Dr. Donna Whitney, Christianity by Dr. Tom Davis, Hinduism by Dr. Howard J. Resnick (HD Goswami), and Buddhism by Professor Win Myint. Dr. Habib Siddiqui represented Islam. This is the transcript of his speech on…

  • The Dome of the Rock (Qub­bat as-Sakhra)

    The Dome of the Rock (Qub­bat as-Sakhra)

    The most universally recognized symbol of Jerusalem is not a Jewish or Christian holy place but a Muslim one: the Dome of the Rock, or Qubbat as-Sakhra as it is known in Arabic. When people see its golden dome rising above the open expanse of Haram as-Shareef, they think of only one place in the…

  • The Posi­tion of Jerusalem and Haram As-Sha­reef in Islam

    The Posi­tion of Jerusalem and Haram As-Sha­reef in Islam

    During the Mi'raj, the Prophet(P) is reported to have received from God the command of five daily prayers (salah) that all Muslims must perform. Upon his return to Mecca, the Prophet instituted these prayers. It is significant to note that he made Jerusalem the direction (al-Qiblah) which Muslims must face while doing their prayers (narrated…

  • Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

    Geo­graph­i­cal Errors With­in The New Testament

    It is well known that the Gospel of Mark con­tains numer­ous geo­graph­i­cal errors. This is summed up in Küm­mel’s clas­sic, Intro­duc­tion to the New Tes­ta­ment : [T]he con­sid­er­a­tions against this assump­tion [that John Mark, com­pan­ion of Peter, wrote the gospel of Mark] car­ry weight. The author obvi­ous­ly has no per­son­al knowl­edge of Pales­tin­ian geog­ra­phy, as the…