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A Common Word: Text and Reflections : A Resource for Parishes and Mosques

Lejla Demiri(Auth.)
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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 depends on peace between Muslims and Christians.

The 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:

Of God’s Unity, God says in the Holy Qur’an: Say: He is God, the One! / God, the Self-Sufficient Besought of all! (Al-Ikhlas, 112:1-2). Of the necessity of love for God, God says in the Holy Qur’an: So invoke the Name of thy Lord and devote thyself to Him with a complete devotion (Al-Muzzammil, 73:8). Of the necessity of love for the neighbor, the Prophet Muhammad said: “None of you has faith until you love for your neighbour what you love for yourself.”

In the New Testament, Jesus Christ said: ‘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.” (Mark 12:29-31)

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About the author

Lejla Demiri: Lejla Demiri is a scholar of Islamic theology, religious pluralism, and interfaith dialogue. Her academic formation spans several prestigious institutions: she earned her BA and MA from Marmara University, a licentiate degree and postgraduate diploma from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. From 2007 to 2010 she served as a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, where she also taught courses on religious pluralism and interfaith dialogue at the Cambridge Muslim College. In 2010-11 she held a competitive postdoctoral fellowship with the 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe' project, a collaboration supported by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her research focuses on Muslim and Christian understandings of the religious other as expressed in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish theological writings. A major research project she has undertaken examines the thought of 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641-1731) on Christianity and Christian theology.

Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN 9781902350073
Publisher Muslim Academic Trust
Author Lejla Demiri
Pages 112
Year Published 2011
Size W-4.6 in | H-7.8 in | D-0.3 in
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