Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
(ACMCU)
Prince-al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
founding 1993
place Georgetown , Washington, DC , USA
director Jonathan AC Brown
Website acmcu.georgetown.edu

The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (“ Prince-al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding”; abbr. ACMCU ) is an institution for interreligious dialogue in the American capital Washington, DC , which is an important and representative institution for the Muslim-Christian dialogue .

history

The center was established in 1993 at the renowned School of Foreign Service named after the Jesuit priest Edmund A. Walsh (1885–1956) as the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding ("Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding"; abbreviation CMCU ) at Georgetown University - the oldest Roman Catholic , of Jesuit -led, US university - founded by an agreement ( agreement ) between the Fondation pour l'entente entre Chrétien et Musulmans ( Geneva ) and Georgetown University to stronger bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West and between Islam and Christianity .

Father Walsh with General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo , 1948

Among the goals of the center, it claims, is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West and to improve the understanding of Muslims in the West, with the geographical scope and reach of the center encompassing the full breadth of the Muslim world, from North Africa to Southeast Asia as well as Europe and America .

The American academic John L. Esposito , who had moved from the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross to Georgetown , was the founding director of the center, its current director is Jonathan AC Brown.

After a $ 20 million donation from al-Walid ibn Talal Al Saud (born 1955) in December 2005, the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU) was renamed after the Saudi Arabian prince and multi-billionaire. Bin Talal 20 simultaneous million in the interdisciplinary were Islamic studies program of Harvard University and 15 million to American study programs at the American University in Beirut and the American University in Cairo to set up. The Wall Street Journal then criticized the lack of a center for Muslim-Christian understanding in Saudi Arabia . In 2008, Frank Wolf , Republican and member of the House of Representatives , asked whether the center had ever been critical of the Saudi government regarding the prince's donation.

The faculty of the center includes (as of May 18, 2017): Jonathan AC Brown (Director), John L. Esposito (Founding Director), John O. Voll , Yvonne Haddad , Tamara Sonn , Engy Abdelkader, Norbani Ismail (Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia) and Ayman Shabana (School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Affiliate).

Other personalities doing research at the center are or were, among others, Sadig Malki Margot Badran and Natana J. DeLong-Bas .

Together with the BMW Center for German and European Studies (CGES) and others, the center was one of the sponsors of the conference "The New Religious Pluralism and Democracy" at Georgetown University in April 2005.

The Center, together with the Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (CSICMR) at Birmingham University (United Kingdom), publishes the journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations ("Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations").

In 2008, the Catholic theologian and church critic Hans Küng was awarded the prize for his life's work in the service of Muslim-Christian understanding at the center, which was awarded for the first time in the USA .

The 500 Most Influential Muslims

Since 2009, the Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talaal Center and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan in Amman have published an annual list of the 500 most influential Muslims under the title The 500 Most Influential Muslims (available online). The first edition was edited by John Esposito together with the Turkish Islamic theologian and presidential spokesman and advisor İbrahim Kalın . The list shows a disproportionately large number of representatives of Islam in the United States compared to the more strongly Islamic countries . It has recently been published by Abdallah Schleifer .

Directors

John Esposito in Sarajevo , October 2013

See also

literature

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ A school for international relations, which in its importance as a diplomatic forge for the US diplomatic corps is comparable with the West Point - Military Academy for the US military .
  2. ↑ Fondation pour l'entente entre Chrétiens et Musulmans (" Foundation for the unity between Christians and Muslims ") - cf. the entry at the Union of International Associations / Union des associations internationales (UIA) in Brussels, operating under the mandate of the United Nations (at uia.org ).
  3. ↑ Islamic Studies , Volume 45, 1–2, Islamic Research Institute ( International Islamic University , Islamabad ), 2006, p. 121 ( partial online view )
  4. ↑ About ACMCU :

    "To build stronger bridges of understanding between the Muslim world and the West as well as between Islam and Christianity"

    - accessed on May 18, 2017
  5. ↑ About ACMCU - accessed May 18, 2017
  6. ^ David Horowitz : The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 2006, ISBN 0-89526-003-4 ( Ebook, 2012 )
  7. ↑ ACMCU - accessed May 18, 2017
  8. ↑ Steve Rafferty: Saudi Prince Gives GU $ 20M: Second-Largest Grant in School History to Fund Islam Study . In: The Hoya , January 13, 2006. Archived from the original on February 6, 2007. Retrieved May 18, 2017. 
  9. ↑ Caryle Murphy, Saudi Gives $ 20 Million to Georgetown , Washington Post (December 13, 2005).
  10. ^ Delicate donations of an oil prince , SpiegelOnline April 13, 2006
  11. ↑ Valerie Strauss: $ 20 million Saudi Gift Is Questioned . In: The Washington Post , February 15, 2008. Retrieved May 18, 2017. 
  12. ↑ ACMCU - accessed May 18, 2017
  13. ↑ One of the signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( A Common Word Between Us to You ). - See also A Common Word (ACMCU).
  14. ↑ Website - A center also located at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
  15. ↑ Thomas Banchoff (Ed.): Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism. Oxford University Press 2007 (Acknowledgments) ( partial online view )
  16. ↑ Center for Muslim – Christian Understanding - openaccess.leidenuniv.nl (accessed on May 18, 2017)
  17. ↑ Commitment to understanding between world religions: Theologian Hans Küng honored for his life's work ( NZZ , November 25, 2008), accessed on May 18, 2017
  18. ↑ Edited by Prof. John Esposito and Prof. Ibrahim Kalin - The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center, 2009 (online at issuu.com )
  19. ↑ Islam and Knowledge: Al Faruqi's Concept of Religion in Islamic Thought ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( IIIT website , accessed May 18, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iiit.org
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (alternative names of the lemma)
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Coordinates: 38 ° 54 ′ 32 "  N , 77 ° 4 ′ 25"  W.