OPEN LETTER TO POPE BENEDICT XVI

Written and signed by 100 leading Muslim scholars and leaders in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks on Islam at the Regensburg lecture on September 12, 2006 

BENEDICT XVI AND ISLAM
by Abdal Hakim Murad

Recent anti-Islam public statements by Pope Benedict XVI have incited emotions among Muslims. In this article, Abdal Hakim Murad offers a better response. In exploring the substantive underpinnings of the Pope’s view of Islam and the theological concerns of the Vatican generally, Murad suggests ways in which the Vatican can work with Islamic scholars on achieving mutual goals.

A MUSLIM’S COMMENTARY ON BENEDICT XVI’S REGENSBURG LECTURE
by Aref Ali Nayed

MUSLIM-PROTESTANT RELATIONS
by Martin Marty

Catholics and Muslims have shared a long history of interfaith relations but what about Protestant-Muslim interaction?

ETHICS OF COEXISTENCE
by Ibrahim Kalin

In our pluralistic world, the old model of integration and assimilation is a thing of the past. What we need, argues Ibrahim Kalin, is participation and accomodation based on an ethics of coexistence.