Reza Shah-Kazemi. The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam

Once in a long while one meets an imaginative, carefully researched reflection on essential aspects of Islam’s inclusive tolerant stance toward the ‘Other’ - other revealed religions, cultural polities, or contrasting metaphysical systems. Reza Shah-Kazemi, the Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica in London, has authored several penetrating works treating Islamic spirituality and valuable comparative studies (including Shankara and Ibn al-Arabi; or Buddhism and Islam), and has sensitively explored the qur’anic vision of interfaith dialogue.