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Hajj Hassan Sobh Speaks About Personal Experience with Religion in ICE talks

The Karbala narrative is a systematic reconstruction of the tragic battle that took place in the year 680 AD. Husayn, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, along with most of his followers, was killed in what has become a central identifying feature of early Islamic history.  The central theme of the Karbala narrative revolves around the […]

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1521/1/1521.pdf?EThOS%20(BL) The above link is to a Ph.D dissertation regarding the life of Sayyid `abd al-Husain Sharaf al-Din, a prominent Lebanese Muslim scholar. Sayyid Sharaf al-Din was born in 1873 in Kadhmiyya in Iraq; his father had left his village, Shuhur, in Jabal ‘Anil to pursue his religious studies in Iraq. When Sharaf al-Din returned he followed his […]

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/grand-mufti-and-al-azhar-grand-sheikh-respond-anti-islam-film-cartoon

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By Matthew Kalman, Guardian UK 25 August 12 http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/289-134/13106-israeli-inquiry-into-rachel-corrie-death-insufficient US government does not believe military inquiry was ‘thorough, credible and transparent’, as family await verdict in civil suit. he US ambassador to Israel has told the family of an American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed in Gaza in 2003 that the US government remains dissatisfied […]

IRSHAD PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH WISSAM CHARAFEDDINE.m4a

IRSHAD PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH WISSAM CHARAFEDDINE.m4a

IRSHAD PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH WISSAM CHARAFEDDINE.m4a

ترحيب بمبادرة مركز حوار المذاهب– King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia Establishes Sunni-Shia Dialogue Institute in Riyadh.

http://www.assafir.com/Article.aspx?EditionId=2234&ChannelId=53579&ArticleId=1801&Author= رحب سبعة من ابرز رجال الدين الشيعة السعوديين في القطيف بدعوة الملك عبد الله بن عبد العزيز لتأسيس مركز للحوار بين المذاهب الاسلامية في الرياض، مؤكدين رفضهم اللجوء الى العنف او استهداف الممتلكات والمؤسسات العامة. وأكد العلماء في بيان «اننا نؤيد وندعم دعوة خادم الحرمين الشريفين ونلتف حول مساعيه الداعية لرفض التقسيمات المذهبية والمناطقية […]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/18/my-take-how-evangelicals-could-grow-to-love-muslims/?hpt=hp_c1

Dear Friends, This article from a highly respected source is not only of immediate policy importance but includes some good background on the persistent blocks to peace presented by exigencies of internal party politics within Israel and how this plays out within the US as well. The links are also good sources of further information. […]