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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 …

Below is the full document signed by Pope Francis and Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, Imam of Al Azhar, where they jointly condemned all discrimination against religious minorities and called for fraternity, on the second day of a historic visit to the United Arab Emirates. ‘Human fraternity for world peace and common coexistence’ Preface Faith leads the believer to see in the other …

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 …

To say that the media are a powerful tool when it comes to shaping public opinion is not a new and well-proven argument. The media – newspapers, radio, television, the internet, social networks – have evolved as the technology that supports them has evolved to become practically omnipresent. What constitutes a media outlet and how they have changed their fundamental …