A journal About Cultural And Civilizational Interaction

Prayer serves on the one hand as a method of self-expression, also a means of communication between humans, the divine realms and musical art, on the other hand, it acts as a way for conveying ideas, emotions, and facilitating communication.…

A personal memoire of an education in principial and sacred forms and the efforts to apply this education, in ways both gratifying and challenging, to the practice of architecture. Keywords: architecture/geometry/Chartres/Alhambra/Ibn Arab.‬

The need for multiform dialogue has never been more critical in Southwestern Asian societies that have to deal with diverse identities, world visions, customs/traditions, and practices, such as the Lebanese and Emirati. In Lebanon, and despite all obstacles, this diversity…

Although many countries of the Middle East are going through difficult moments at present, where religion is misinterpreted as the main reason for conflicts and violence, there are also living experiences of peace and dialogue between people from different religions…

This article puts forth the argument that the times of crises in which we live are so enormous that spirituality needs to inspire creativity that is more far-reaching than hitherto considered. We live in times of ecocide and sociocide —…

The paper discusses the relationship between places, imagination and spirituality. Why do people have such different ways of experiencing places? How does the Cave of the Seven Sleepers exemplify the capacity of religion to promote self and mutual understanding? Is…

The thirty-second sura of the Qur’ān, Sūrat al-Sajda (“the Sura of Prostration”), is a rather short text that has hitherto received comparatively little scholarly attention vis-à-vis longer suras, suras with more explicit biblical intertextuality, or even shorter yet more distinctive…

This paper aims at conducting a comparative study of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poetry and Manal Deeb’s paintings, scrutinizing their personal experiences as Palestinian American artists living between borders. The study focuses on their representations of homeland and their multi-cultural identities,…