Davood Radmand and Marzieh Kouhi-Esfahani
Mr Davood Radmand holds an MA in Political Science. He is a Research Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Group, and is currently working for the International Center for Dialogue Among Civilizations.
The purpose of this paper is to study the instructions of Islam with regard to dialogue among civilizations. Equality and respectability of all human beings despite their differences, peace, justice, tolerance towards others, and authenticity of various sources of knowledge, encouragement of logical discussions and dialogues, are lessons that could be found in Islamic sources.
The evidences from Islamic sources such as Holy Qur'an, hadith, etc. about above mentioned subjects would be presented in this paper to reflect Islam's view towards these topics.
Also the means and practical ways of achieving dialogue among civilizations towards a peaceful world, which have been introduced in Islamic sources, will be discussed.