Open letter from Islamic scholars to Pope Benedict XVI.
The Open Letter from Islamic Scholars to Pope Benedict XVI. of September 25, 2006 was signed by 38 Islamic clergymen. The open letter refers to a lecture that Pope Benedict XVI. held on September 12, 2006 at the University of Regensburg (see main article: Pope quote from Regensburg ). In the introduction to the letter, its authors write that they consider several statements made by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in this lecture to be incorrect and would like to correct them.
List of signatories
- Note: Religious / secular titles (such as SE, Sayyid, Scheich, Prof., Dr., Prinz) have been omitted from the list of signatories, some spellings have been corrected or slightly modified, some information has been added.
- Abdullah Bin Mahfuz Bin Bajjah , Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, Former Vice-President, Minister of Justice, Minister of Education and Minister of Islamic Affairs , Mauritania
- Allama Mohammed Said Ramadan al-Buti , Dean of the Department of Religions, Damascus University , Syria
- Mustafa Çağrıcı , Grand Mufti of Istanbul , Turkey
- Mustafa Cerić , Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Rawil Gainutdin , Grand Mufti of Russia
- Nedžad Grabus , Grand Mufti of Slovenia
- al-Habib Ali Meshhur Bin Mohammed bin Salim Bin Hafiz , Imam of the Tarim Mosque and Chairman of the Tarim Fetwa Council , formerly Head of Dar al Mustafa for Islamic Studies and Lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Jurisprudence, Tarim, Yemen
- al-Habib Omar Bin Mohammed Bin Salim Bin Hafiz , Dean Dar al-Mustafa for Islamic Studies, Tarim, Yemen
- Faruq Hamadah , Mohammed V University , Morocco
- Hamza Yusuf Hanson , founder and director of the Zaytuna Institute , California, USA
- Ahmed Badr ad-Din Hassun , Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic
- Izz Ad-Din Ibrahim , Cultural Affairs Advisor, Prime Ministry, United Arab Emirates
- Omar Jah , Secretary of the Muslim Scholars Council , Professor of Islamic Culture and Islamic Thought, University of Gambia
- Habib Ali al-Jifri , founder and director of the Tabah Foundation , United Arab Emirates
- Ali Dschumaa , Grand Mufti of the Republic of Egypt
- Abla Mohammed al-Kahlawi , Dean of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Women's College, Al-Azhar University , Egypt
- Mohammed Haschem Kamali , Dean of the International Academy of Islamic Culture and Humanities (ISTAC), Professor of Islamic Jurisprudence and Legal Studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia
- Nuh Ha Mim Keller , Sheikh of the Tarīqa Shadhilīya and senior member of the Aal al-Bayt Foundation for Islamic Thought in Jordan , USA
- Ahmed bin Hamad al-Khalili , Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman
- Ahmed al-Kubaisi , Founder of the Council of Scholars , Iraq
- Mohammed bin Mohammed al-Mansur , High Authority ( Marjah ' ) of the Zaidi Muslims, Yemen
- Abu Bakr Ahmed Al Milibari , General Secretary of the Ahl Al-Sunna Association , India
- Mulay Abd al-Kabir al-Alawi al-Mudghari , General Director of the Beit Mal Al-Quds Asch-Sharif Association and former Minister for Islamic Affairs , Morocco
- Ahmed Haschim Musadi , Chairman of Nehdat al-Ulama , Indonesia
- Husein Nasr , Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University , Washington DC, USA
- Ševko Omerbašić , Grand Mufti of Croatia
- Mohammed Abul Ghaffar Asch-Sharif , General Secretary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs , Kuwait
- Mohammed Alwani al-Sharif , Head of the European Academy for Islamic Culture and Sciences , Brussels, Belgium
- Mohammed Iqbal Sullam , Vice Secretary General of Nahdatul Ulama , Indonesia
- Tariq Sweidan , General Director of Ar-Risala TV Channel , Kuwait
- Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal , Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought , Jordan
- Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Taschiri , General Secretary of the World Organization for Understanding Different Schools of Islamic Law ( WAPIST ), Iran
- Naim Tërnava , Grand Mufti of Kosovo
- Abd Al-Aziz Uthman Al-Tweijri , Director General of the Islamic Organization for Education, Science and Culture (ISESCO), Morocco
- Mohammed Taqi Uthmani , Vice President of Dar Al-Ulum Karachi, Pakistan
- Mohammed As-Sadeq Mohammed Jusuf , Grand Mufti of Uzbekistan
- Abd-al Hakim Murad Winter , Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Cambridge University and Director of the Muslim Academic Trust , UK
- Muamer Zukorlić , Mufti of the Sanjak , Bosnia
literature
- Safaa M. Afifi El-Sheikh: Western Churches in the Image of Contemporary Egyptian and Arab Religious Scholars: A Contribution to the Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI. (Doctorate from HU zu Berlin) Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2012 ( Online ; PDF; 1.8 MB)
See also
Web links
- ammanmessage.com: Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (PDF; 88 kB) (English & Arabic-language publication of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought; PDF; 88 kB)
- islam.de Open letter to His Holiness Pope XVI. (PDF; 224 kB)
- al-sakina.de: Open letter from Islamic scholars to Pope Benedict XVI.
- freunde-abrahams.de (PDF; 104 kB); islamheute.ch ; kbwn.de ; Vatican Report (unav.es) ; acommonword.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ iiu.edu.pk (PDF; 196 kB) Islamic Studies 45: 4 (2006) pp. 595-613
- ↑ http://islam.de/files/misc/ulema_papst_10_06.pdf