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One of the most important elements to create a collective identity in a human group is a common story that narrates the past to give meaning to the present and project a future. Sharing this story, this story, is what creates the narrative of ‘us’; It defines where we come from, who we are, and where we are going. When …

Talk given at the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation on May 30, 2019 – 25 Ramadan 1440, by Hafith Luqman Nieto, vice president of the Seville Mosque Foundation . — As-salamu alaykum. Peace be with you. When we extend this greeting, we are making a supplication, a dua: that peace and contentment with reality be with you. The word …

In these last few days I have been remembering a lot of one of my teachers, a man with whom I shared a lot and from whom I learned even more, a man of a unique character, of a high behavior, far from evil and close to good, whom I always remember with a smile ready to explain things to …

Modern philosophy, in general, has abandoned the goals of earlier metaphysics for several reasons. At the heart of the matter is the age-old debate over universal principles, a conflict between the essentialist approach of the “realists” or the “moderate realists,” committed to what became known as the old way (the “old way”), and the nominalist approach committed to the modern …

A DOCUMENT ON HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHER INTRODUCTION Faith leads a believer to see in the other a brother or sister to be supported and loved. Through faith in God, who has created the universe, creatures and all human beings (equal on account of his mercy), believers are called to express this human fraternity by safeguarding …

In the month of Rabi 1, the month of birth of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, we wanted to recommend the reading of this classic text, Ash-Shifa of Qadi’Iyad, with translation by Abdelgani Melara. The importance of Ash-Shifa, which is one of the most commented works in the history of Islam, lies essentially in the fact …

I have had a few days of a lot of hustle and bustle, days of inexhaustible paperwork in which I have not had time to sit down calmly and write something, but, in spite of this, in these days, the first days of the month of the birth of the best of creation, the Messenger Muhammad, salla allahu alaihi wa …