Gandhi and Islam
Gandhi, Islam, and the Principles of Non-violence and Attachment to Truth
by Dr. Karim Lahham
‘History,’ Lord Acton eleven said, ‘should be, not a burden on the memory, but an illumination of the soul.’ This implies the need for a synthesis of the historical flux into an intelligible form that can serve as a basis for illumination. It is common enough a point to agree that the function of the historian is to record socio-political facts, but we would add that it is no less his duty to provide also formulas, relational aspects that are necessary to make such intel understand facts.
The Road to Mecca
Book Review by A. Razzaq Pérez Fernández
The Way of Mesa by Muhammad Asad / Translation: A. Razzaq Pérez Fernández
This work is the spiritual biography of Muhammad Asad, Austrian journalist, writer and traveler, born in 1900 in the city of Lvov, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and today in Ukraine. The son of a Jewish lawyer and grandson of an Orthodox rabbi. He died in Mijas, Malaga, in 1992, and is buried in the Rauda de Granada.
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