Original scientific paper

Islam P & O (Pitanja i odgovori)

Daniel Ćosić-Dragan

Abstract

What is Islam? Is it religion, movement, political idea, type of organization of society, art of culture, science or just an ideology, which supports and gives approval for violence and terrorism?
Those questions, normally, ask himself a person after seeing, reading and hearing daily news, full of violence mainly from areas populated by Muslims (Arabic peninsula, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia…).
Having in mind that there is a significant number of those persons claiming that Islam supports and suggests that violence is acceptable if You are on “the way of Allah”, author wanted to show other, from an ecumenical perspective, real face of Islam – side which is very narrow to other religions (especially to Judaism and Christianity) and positive heritage (for western, Christian Civilisation) from time of conflicts and battles.
This short overview and presentation of some terms, activities, names, ideas and persons from the history of Islam, as author hope, can make our knowledge abut Islam wider and deeper and be helpful for spreading the inter-religion and intercultural dialogue.

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Hrčak ID:

21140

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/21140

Publication date:

1.3.2008.

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