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Apart from filling this gap, the present work brings into sharper relief the common background of three major world faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book contains four sections: The religious beliefs of Islam explained; the religious duties of Islam explained; answers to some of the questions most frequently asked by non-Muslims about Islam; and Christianity and Islam with focus on the theological differences and concurrence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book serves as an introduction to the theology and practice of Islam and attempts to explode some of the false impressions around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout The Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood (born 1942) is a British Muslim author, who served as Head of Religious Studies at William Gee High School, Hull, England. 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Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. The future of the world depends on peace between Muslims and Christians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe basis for this peace and understanding already exists. It is part of the very foundational principles of both faiths: love of the One God, and love of the neighbor. These principles are found over and over again in the sacred texts of Islam and Christianity. The Unity of God, the necessity of love for Him, and the necessity of love of the neighbor is thus the common ground between Islam and Christianity. The following are only a few examples:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf God’s Unity, God says in the Holy Qur’an:\u003cem\u003e Say: He is God, the One!\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eGod, the Self-Sufficient Besought of all!\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eAl-Ikhlas\u003c\/em\u003e, 112:1-2). Of the necessity of love for God, God says in the Holy Qur’an: \u003cem\u003eSo invoke the Name of thy Lord and devote thyself to Him with a complete devotion\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eAl-Muzzammil\u003c\/em\u003e, 73:8). Of the necessity of love for the neighbor, the Prophet Muhammad said: “\u003cem\u003eNone of you has faith until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the New Testament, Jesus Christ said: \u003cem\u003e‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. \/  And you shall love the Lord  your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. ’This is the first commandment. \/ And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ’There is no other commandment greater than these.” \u003c\/em\u003e(Mark 12:29-31)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLejla Demiri\u003c\/strong\u003e is a 2010\/2011 postdoctoral fellow with the \"Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe\" project sponsored by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her research focuses on respective Muslim and Christian understandings of the religious ‘other’, as expressed in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish theological writings; her current project is \"A Muslim Approach to Religious Diversity and Salvation in the late 17th and Early 18th Centuries: ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731) on Christianity and Christian Theology.\" From 2007-10 Demiri was a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge University, and she also taught courses on religious pluralism and interfaith dialogue at the Cambridge Muslim College. Demiri holds a BA and MA from Marmara University, licentiate degree and postgraduate diploma from the Pontifical Gregorian University, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muslim Academic Trust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47673967280436,"sku":"MAT001","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/5031\/5572\/files\/A-Common-Word_-Text-and-Reflections-_-A-Resource-for-Parishes-and-Mosques-Muslim-Academic-Trust-40201820.jpg?v=1780373981"},{"product_id":"al-quds-the-place-of-jerusalem-in-classical-judaic-and-islamic-traditions","title":"Al-Quds: The Place of Jerusalem in Classical Judaic and Islamic Traditions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;\"\u003eThis book is a comparative study of the place of al-Quds (Jerusalem) in the classic Judaic and Islamic traditions. 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This book examines Jesus as a prophet teaching the Unity of God, and the historical collapse of Christianity as it abandoned his teaching. The author sketches the dramatic picture of the original followers of Jesus who affirmed Unity. 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This interfaith initiative focuses upon metaphysical and ethical aspects of Islam and Buddhism, placing them in context with each other, thus encouraging understanding, and providing a point of reference for continuing and deepening reciprocal respect and collaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn their respective introductions to this book, H.H. the Dalai Lama states that the book helps demonstrate that Islam is indeed a 'path of salvation; while leading Islamic scholar of jurisprudence, Prof Mohammad Hashim Kamali, asserts that on the basis of this book one can argue that Buddhism is an authentic 'deen' or religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an important and pioneering book, which seeks to find common ground between the teachings of Islam and of Buddhism. It is my hope that on the basis of this common ground, followers of each tradition may come to appreciate the spiritual truths their different paths entail, and from this develop a basis for respect for each others’ practice and beliefs. This may not have occurred very often before, because there has been so little opportunity for real understanding between these two great traditions. This book attempts to set that right ... From a Buddhist point of view, the practice of Islam is evidently a spiritual path of salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e- His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith compelling evidence, drawing upon a dazzling interplay of scriptural and spiritual authorities from both traditions, the reader is led on a pilgrimage to the respective hearts and foundational principles of these great revelations. 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The historic announcement would bring an end to the dual spiritual and political authority of the Dalai Lama and revert to the previous tradition of the first four Dalai Lamas being only the spiritual leader of Tibet. The democratically elected leadership would assume complete formal political leadership of Tibet. The Ganden Phodrang, the institution of the Dalai Lamas, would continue and remain intact. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On 29 May 2011, His Holiness signed into law the formal transfer of his temporal power to the democratically elected leader. This brought to an end the 368-year old tradition of the Dalai Lamas being both spiritual and temporal head of Tibet.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMohammad Hashim Kamali\u003c\/strong\u003e (born February 7, 1944, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan) is an Afghan Islamic scholar and former professor of law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia. 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