<span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Most of the papers presented under Muslim-Christian Encounter or Islamic Studies were by special invitation. We also received a number of papers which were unsolicited. In every case we tried to fit the offered papers into the program without jeopardizing the planned themes for sessions. However, the desire of the Steering Committee was to focus each session around a chosen topic so that speakers and audience could interact on a particular issue."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":2947,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":16777215},"10":1,"11":4,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":3355443}}">Most of the papers presented under Muslim-Christian Encounter or Islamic Studies were by special invitation. We also received a number of papers which were unsolicited. In every case we tried to fit the offered papers into the program without jeopardizing the planned themes for sessions. However, the desire of the Steering Committee was to focus each session around a chosen topic so that speakers and audience could interact on a particular issue.</span>

Over the entire period of ten years of activity (nine annual meetings) there was perfect accord between the Steering Committee and the audience. Members of the audience repeatedly expressed their approval of, and gratitude for, the programs we had prepared. Their suggestions were acted upon, and they were happy to return to the AAR meeting year after year.The lslamic Studies Group has built up a small but growing and vigorous constituency. Though small by comparison to total AAR membership, this constituency is largely made of scholars who teach Islam either in one undergraduate course, or as a smaller part of an undergraduate survey course in the religions of the world. Already, a number of specialized lslamicists have been pulled toward the AAR because of our distinctive approach to comparative study. Moreover, the papers so far presented in the field of lslamic Studies have been of very high quality, and they are bound to improve in quality and quantity in the future. It is our considered judgment -and hence, our recommendation - that the Islamic Studies Group be upgraded to "section” and that it be given a chance to realize this fuller development in the coming decade.

Normally, a "Group" Program unit would sit for an election of a new steering committee every five years, assuming a decision on the part of the AAR to continue same. However, the AAR Executive Director has asked the present Steering Committee to continue for one additional year. Elections will therefore be planned for the annual meeting, 1982.

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Islamic Thought and Culture

This book, Trialogue of the Abrahamic Faiths, edited by the late Dr. Isma'il R. al Faruqi, is certain to be hailed as a historic milestone in Muslim-Christian-Jewish dialogue. Perhaps not since the early Middle Ages when the grand courts of Damascus, Baghdad, and Qurtubah (Cordova) witnessed numerous dialogues and debates between the adherents of these three Abrahamic faiths has there been such a successful effort made by religious scholars to communicate with one another on matters of faith and understanding.

This book, readers may note, goes beyond the modern-day ostensible studies in comparative religion, and each of the contributing scholars evinces and appreciation and more-than-cursory knowledge of all three faiths.The book also offers a unique forum for dialogue between Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars as they discuss issues of faith, the nation-state as a form of social organization and the faith-community as a transnational actor for justice and peace.

Trialogue of the Abrahamic Faiths

Ismail Raji al-Faruqi January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986 was a Palestinian-American philosopher, widely recognized by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion. He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then taught at several universities in North America, including McGill University in Montreal. He was Professor of Religion at Temple University, where he founded and chaired the Islamic Studies program. Al-Faruqi was also the founder of the International Institute of Islamic Thought. He wrote over 100 articles for various scholarly journals and magazines in addition to 25 books, of the most notable being Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas. He also established the Islamic Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion and chaired it for ten years. He served as the vice-president of the Inter-Religious Peace Colloquium, The Muslim-Jewish-Christian Conference and as the president of the American Islamic College in Chicago.

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Al-Faruqi and his wife, Lois Lamya al-Faruqi, were stabbed to death in their home in Wyncote, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1986.

Al-Faruqi was born in Jaffa, in British-mandate Palestine (now part of Tel Aviv, Israel). His father, 'Abd al-Huda al-Faruqi, was an Islamic judge and a religious man well-versed in Islamic scholarship.

Books

(1953) From Here We Start, tr. from the Arabic of K.M. Khalid. Washington, DC: American Council of Learned Societies

(1953) Our Beginning in Wisdom, tr. from the Arabic of M. al Ghazali. Washington, DC: American Council of Learned Societies

(1953) the Policy of Tomorrow, tr. from the Arabic of M. B. Ghali. Washington, DC: American Council of Learned Societies

(1962) `Urubah and Religion: An Analysis of the Dominant Ideas of Arabism and of Islam as Its Heights Moment of Consciousness, vol. 1 of On Arabism, Amsterdam: Djambatan

(1964) Usul al Sahyuniyah fi al Din al Yahudi (An Analytical Study of the Growth of Particularism in Hebrew Scripture). Cairo: Institute of Higher Arabic Studies

(1968) Christian Ethics: A Systematic and Historical Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas. Montreal: McGill University Press and Amsterdam: Djambatan, Amsterdam

(1980) Islam and the Problem of Israel. London: The Islamic Council of Europe

(1982) Trialogue of the Abrahamic Faiths

(1982) Islamization of Knowledge. Herndon

(1982) Tawhid: Its Implications for Thought and Life

(1985) Islam and Other Faiths. Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications

(1986) The Cultural Atlas of Islam. New York: Macmillan

(2012) Islam: Religion, Practice, Culture & World Order

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