For Adam and Ibrahim
Akbar Ahmed Monday, 1 March 2004
I have recently had the honor of participating in public meetings with Christian and Jewish colleagues and friends. The purpose? To increase inter-faith understanding and, more than that, to claim and cultivate a parcel of "Abrahamic" common ground, so that each of the three world religions that claim Abraham as a patriarch—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—can learn to live in respectful peace. This is not vapid ecumenism or universalism but a principled pluralism; we must know when to agree, and when to agree to disagree.
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