University platform for research on Islam
Initiated by
the Federation
of European
Catholic
Universities
Supported by
the International
Federation
of Catholic
Universities
Hosted by
Référence :
Islamochristiana 34 (2008) 79–86
Italian
The dialogue between the Focolare Movement and Muslims
Original title : “Il dialogo del Movimento dei Focolari con i Musulmani”
Abstract : Academic meetings and relationships between official representatives of the Christian Churches and of Muslim communities helpand favour Muslim–Christian dialogue. However, this dialogue is sustained and lives above all through interpersonal ties, authentic and sincere relationships between Christian and Muslim believers. The author provides a testimony of what he has personallyexperienced within the Catholic movement of the Focolari, which over the years and in various countries in the world has developed a tightly knit network of contacts, meetings, places of peace, based on the spirituality of unity, of love and of reciprocalrespect. The spirit of the foundress of the movement, the recently deceased Chiara Lubich, is an answer to the deep need of human and spiritual brotherliness that unites persons beyond their undeniable differencies.
Titre original : “Il dialogo del Movimento dei Focolari con i Musulmani”
Résumé : Les rencontres d’académiciens et les rapports entre les représentants officiels des Églises chrétiennes et des communautés musulmanes aident et favorisent le dialogue islamo–chrétien. Mais ce dialogue s’alimente et vit surtout de rapports interpersonnels, de relations vraies et sincères entre croyants chrétiens et musulmans. L’auteur fournit un témoignage vécu directement à l’intérieur du mouvement catholique des Focolaris, lequel a développé durant des années et dans divers pays du monde, un réseau serré de contacts, de rencontres, de lieux de paix, basés sur la spiritualité de l’unité, de l’amour et du respect mutuel. L’esprit de la fondatrice du mouvement, Chiara Lubich, décédée récemment, répond à l’exigence profonde de fraternité humaine et spirituelle qui unit les personnes au–delà de leurs différences indéniables
Download PDF
Resources of this researcher
publication
Christianity and Islam: theologians in dialogue
Cahiers de la Revue théologique de Louvain N°45 co-edited by Michel Younès and André Wénin. This book initiates a dialogue between Christian and Muslim theologians on how the former view Islam and ...
videos
The document on human fraternity: a new horizon for Islamic-Christian dialogue? (Italian)
Lecturers : Adnane Mokrani, P. Laurent Basanese S.J. Moderator: Valentino Cottini Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, April 8th, 2019 This conference marks the launch of the r...
videos
Islam and non-violence: from theory to practice
Lecture given at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, on January 10, 2019
videos
Training for dialogue
Lecture given at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, 23 January 2015.
videos
Towards an islamic dialogical and a-controversial theology
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological area Speaker: Adnane Mokrani, Associate Professor at the Pontifical Ins...
article
The dialogue between the Focolare Movement and Muslims
Original title : "Il dialogo del Movimento dei Focolari con i Musulmani" Abstract : Academic meetings and relationships between official representatives of the Christian Churches and of Muslim c...
article
Ashura in sunnite mirrors, confused borders between joy and sadness
SUMMARY: This article analyzes the Sunnite views of ‘Āshūrā’ and the assassination/martyrdom of al–Ḥusayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad. It is not an exhaustive work; it is rather selective...
Resources related to
Muslim-Christian Dialogue
publication
Not without others: recognition of others and unity in Christ – on the relationship between mission and dialogue
- Tobias Specker
Article published in the missiology journal ZMR 106 (2022/1-4), double issue: “Evangelisation and Fraternity in the Plural World
publication
Normativity of Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Klaus von Stosch
- Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the orientation towards “holy texts” is central. While in the past it was undisputed that these texts could be understood as directly given by God an...
publication
Luther and Mohammed. Western European Protestantism and Islam (16th-18th centuries)
- Pierre-Olivier Léchot
Publisher’s presentation Autumn 1611: while visiting France, a young Dutch Protestant student refines his knowledge of Arabic with a Muslim of Castilian origin he met in the Paris region. Tho...
article
Original Sin and the Qur’an
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
The present article addresses the common view that the Qur’an has no doctrine of original sin. It begins by defining original sin with attention to the Bible and Christian tradition. Thereafter the...
videos
Education And Otherness: What are the Issues in a Context of Diversity?
- Salim Daccache
In the era of the continuous call for the adoption of citizenship and living together (al Azhar declaration March 2017) and human brotherhood and common coexistence (Abu Dhabi document February 201...
videos
Islam and Christianity: mutual views and challenges of otherness
- Michel Younès
In his book Soi-même comme un autre (Seuil 1990), the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) builds his reflection on this 'as' which, according to him, allows us to escape from two harmful te...
videos
Thinking Islam in Europe
- Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
Interview with Alberto F. Ambrosio, dominican friar, professor of Theology and Histpry of Religions at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. Reporter : Raphaël Georgy With the collabor...
videos
Muslim-Christian Dialogue : the approach of the White Fathers
- Rémi Caucanas
Involved in the Muslim world since its foundation by Bishop Charles Lavigerie in 1868, the Society of Missionaries of Africa, whose members are known as the White Fathers, has contributed to the em...