Category: Building Interfaith Communities

Building Interfaith Communities

The Bombs Fall on Iran; The Hatred Falls Next Door: On Islamophobia, War, and the Wisdom of Mahmoud Ayoub

My teacher, the late Professor Mahmoud Ayoub, used to say ignorance is the original sin of interfaith relations. Not malice, but ignorance. Malice, he believed, was simply ignorance that had found a megaphone.

Nick Mumejian

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Building Interfaith Communities

Case Studies in Coexistence, Part 2 – The House of Wisdom and Its Conditions: Interreligious Exchange in Abbasid Baghdad

Discover Abbasid Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, a scholarly center built on multifaith collaboration. Learn how Christians, Muslims, and Jews advanced knowledge through shared intellectual labor.

Hartford International University

Abbasid Baghdad as a center for interfaith scholarship
Building Interfaith Communities

Case Studies in Coexistence: What Historical Christian-Muslim Encounters Teach Us

Explore how medieval Córdoba and Toledo became centers of multifaith scholarship, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews shared intellectual worlds despite political inequality.

Hartford International University

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Building Interfaith Communities Interfaith & Interreligious Dialogue

Multi-partiality as a Path to Transformative Peace: Lessons from Constructive Conflict Intervention

Over the past few months, my understanding of multi-partiality has shifted from something abstract into something lived and embodied.

MAP Student Maria Aikaterini Christou

Transformative Peace