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Like any rousing Islamic preacher, Muhammed Tahir ul-Qadri’s voice rises to a shout and his index finger jabs as he hammers home a point. But rather than angry calls for jihad (holy war) or a vitriolic denunciation of the West and its aggressions against Islam, Qadri’s message, equally forcefully delivered, is about moderation, peace, inclusion…
The German Sufi Master Hussein Abdul Fattah Hill recognized by his high spiritual, religious and cultural capacity will be giving a conference about Sufism nowadays in Carmen de la Victoria de Granada on the 14 of March, and since the 16 until the 18 of March at the Puebla de Don Fadrique. The event will…
Islam must find its place in the West. Abdennour Pierre Bidar, professor of philosophy, is persuaded of this and wants to convince us as well. But his Islam is particular – it is the result of a long personal path that has let him to consider himself today as an atypical muslim, a “polka-dotted zebra”…
