Sentences with phrase «muslim scholars»

Even a casual glance at Islamic history reveals that, while much of Europe in the Medieval Period viewed mental illness as demon - related, Muslim scholars of the time, including Ibn Sina (known in the West as Avicenna — the founder of Modern Medicine), rejected such notions and viewed mental disorders as conditions that were physiologically based.

A copy of a news article about an unprecedented letter to Pope Benedict and other Christian leaders from 138 Muslim scholars in which is said finding common ground between the world's biggest faiths was not simply a matter for polite dialogue between religious leaders and «the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake».

For most of Islam's history, the vast majority of Muslims, including Muslim scholars and religious leaders, have clearly understood jihad to mean primarily a holy war to expand and defend the realm of Islam.

Muslim scholars have called The number of Christian converts to Islam is growing rapidly.

A study of patterns in 12th - to 17th - century mosaics suggests that Muslim scholars made a geometric breakthrough 500 years before mathematicians in the West.

As proof of this, he noted the name for the military operation against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan was changed from «Operation Infinite Justice» to «Operation Enduring Freedom» after Muslim scholars and clerics objected to the first on religious grounds.

In October, 138 Muslim scholars and clerics representing the major branches of Islam released «A Common Word Between Us and You,» a document inviting Christians to interfaith dialogue on behalf of peace.

In 2008, former president Duane Litfin signed a Christian response letter to «A Common Word between Us and You,» a statement from 138 Muslim scholars and clerics calling for interfaith cooperation.

«Loving God and Neighbor Together» was published in the November 18, 2007, New York Times as a response to an October statement from 138 Muslim scholars and clerics calling for interfaith cooperation.

Well, Tyson can give us specific quotes from one of the most prominent of Muslim scholars denouncing mathematics and lists of astronomical discoveries made before radical religion became entrenched in Islamic culture, while you present ambiguous statements like «history» and «facts» and attacks on his credibility, not his arguments.

Many Muslim scholars, particularly in the West, insist that Islam is compatible with modern standards of gender equality.

While some Muslim scholars, following basic Islamic tenets, believe that gender equality is counter to Islam and that women are suitable merely «to deliver children,» this is not the only existing Islamic view.

After meeting with Muslim scholars the author has a better understanding that in times of uncertainty it may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

After the program ended, many of the Muslim scholars wrote to say that their visit had convinced them of the basic kindness of the American people.

And as I look at the current turmoil in Iraq and remember my conversations with Muslim scholars, I have a better understanding of the popular appeal of theocracy in Muslim - majority countries that have been ruled by brutal and repressive secular rulers.

Regardless of how repetitive it may appear, muslim scholars especially in the west should not refrain from pointing out that ISLAM DOES NOT CONDONE SUICIDE OR ACTS OF TERRORISM.

One of the most notable Muslim scholars was Ibn - Khaldun, who gave us a multi-disciplinary, dynamic model of the economy, very different from the neo-classical model which relies primarily on economic variables.

Although progressive Muslim scholars endorse the opening of the gate in order to adapt fiqh to modernity, Salafist groups wish to open the gate in order to discard centuries of what they see as un-Islamic traditions.

The historical answer given by Muslim scholars, who recognised the contradiction and the potential Trinitarian trap, is that it is and it isn't!

There are currently two received versions (the Hafs and Warsh) in circulation among Muslims worldwide, although Muslim scholars insist that there is no difference of inner meaning with regard to what is permitted and what is forbidden.

Pope Benedict XVI has replied to a letter from Muslim scholars, stressing the need for dialogue between Islam and Christianity and saying he would be willing to meet Muslim representatives at the Vatican.

This criticism is made by the (now) over 100 Muslim scholars in their 2006 Open Letter to Pope Benedict which states: «figures such as al - Ghazali (d. 1111 CE) and many others are far more influential and representative of Islamic belief than Ibn Hazm (d. 1069)».

He told The Sunday Times: «Let's have a committee of a variety of Muslim scholars in the West, not any from the East, to reinterpret the scriptures.

It is simply a concise presentation of the history and spread of Islam and of the beliefs and obligations of Muslims as interpreted by outstanding Muslim scholars of our time.

The faith of Islam, and the consequences of that faith, are described in this book by devout Muslim scholars.

Finally, a new collection of 14 essays, Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (Oneworld), illuminates the breadth of the honest intellectual engagement with which many Muslim scholars today address critical and controversial issues.

But these rudimentary and altogether primitive speculations on certain religious problems soon assumed larger proportions when Muslim scholars who were skilled in the art of dialectic and tolerably conversant with Greek philosophy appeared on the scene.

More recently, I have been involved in extensive exchanges with Muslim scholars.

The more I hear from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scholars the more attracted I become towards Buddhism.

I once asked Muslim scholars - What can you as Muslim not do in this country that you can do in a Muslim country?

Dr. Mohammad Rasjidi is the Indonesian Ambassador to Pakistan and one of Indonesia's leading Muslim scholars.

Muslim scholars soon joined.

There were several Sindhi Muslim scholars of note in this period, men whose influence extended to Iraq where the people thought highly of their learning.

WHEREAS, hundreds of Muslim scholars and intellectuals from over 120 countries, along with representatives of Islamic and international organizations, as well as leaders from diverse religious groups and nationalities, gathered in Marrakesh on this date to reaffirm the principles of the Charter of Medina at a major conference;

Muslim scholars said the key part of this passage, which forms the backbone of Islam's «just war» theory, is that, while self - defense is allowed, violent aggression, especially against innocents, is a grave sin.

We must be concerned with how Muslim, as well as Christian, minorities are treated in Islamic countries.We must be concerned about the Muslim scholars who are persecuted in their own countries or are forced into exile.

Likewise, Barfi's use of the phrase «debate with calm preachings» rings a particular note in Islam, Muslim scholars said.

We have dreamed of a Wheaton College where professors meet with major Muslim scholars, even traveling to Iran where they would be warmly received while testifying to their Christian faith.

In the Dark Ages, when Christianity was forbidding scientific inquiry as «heresy», Muslim scholars were amongst the most enlightened in the world, giving great contributions to science, art, trade... It's true that the more extreme facets of it today are mis - guided, but so are the most extreme facets of Christianity (just look, again, at history for that one... Inquisition, anyone?)

After 9/11, progressive Muslim scholars openly declared their stance against «those whose God is a vengeful monster in the sky issuing death decrees against the Muslim and the non-Muslim alike... those whose God is too small, too mean, too tribal and too male.»

As one Muslim scholar put it, «Shari`ah instructs man on how he should eat, receive visitors, buy and sell, slaughter animals, clean himself, sleep, go to the toilet, lead a government, practice justice, pray, and perform other acts of [worship].»

Muslim scholar says riot un-islamic.

«I am a Christian, and I have never been a Muslim,» Ibrahim told the judge after a Muslim scholar spent 40 minutes persuading her to recant, reports Morning Star News, which first broke the news of Ibrahim's case.

• Last year, Muslim scholar, Ali Nayed and Italian philosopher and theologian, Alessandro Martinetti took part in a scholarly written discussion concerning Pope Benedict's Regensburg affirmation that we should expect God (the Logos) to act profoundly rationally, and hence for there to a profound harmony of Faith and reason.

He was a Muslim scholar who, having graduated in Islamic Law from Damascus University, was forced to leave Palestine for Jordan when Palestine was conquered by Israel in 1967.

He is the senior Muslim scholar of Indonesia, highly respected and honored by his countrymen.

Some modern Christian thinkers, such as John Hick or Raimundo Panikkar, in their interpretation of the Trinity as a metaphor come close to Muslim thinking, but as the distinguished Muslim scholar Professor S. A. Ali observes, Muslims will always be uneasy with the language of «Father, Son and Holy Spirit.»

Lots of comments coming in on our story about a prominent American Muslim scholar who says the proposed mosque near ground zero may be dangerously misguided and that American Muslims have failed to grasp how deeply the 9/11 attacks shook the U.S.

Religion News Service: Muslim scholar wins prestigious Grawemeyer Award For the first time, the University of Louisville's prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion, a $ 100,000 cash prize, will go to a female Muslim scholar.

i as a muslim scholar (ummah) and a medical student with allah as my witness will challenge dr. steven hawking in a open forum for a debate and prove to him the the existence of the lord.