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“DIVERSITY IN UNITY” AS A PRINCIPLE OF SOCIO-CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ACTION (The East Conference Initiative as a Turkish Experience) Plurality is neither a new idea (concept) nor a merely Western one as is generally believed Contrary to this common perception, the roots of the idea of plurality can be found easily in many living Asian civilizations beside Western civilization. Islamic civilization is one of these living civilizations in which one can trace the roots of the cultural and creedal plurality in its past and present. The most evident proof of this claim can be found easily in the Qur’an itself and also in the life of the Prophet Muhammad as…

Printed Islamic books are more reliable than manuscipts? Is there any control over printed Islamic sources? About The Islamic Sources : The term “Islamic sources” refers in general to the written materials; books, treatises, articles etc. But these written materials are not all the same. At the beginning, materials of this kind were in form of manuscripts, such as single or multivolume books (al-kutub), treatises (al-rasail), booklets(al-ajzâ) and other types of manuscripts. Until the innovation of printing, manuscripts were unique written instruments for transferring Islamic knowledge. In order to guarantee the authenticity of the manuscripts, Islamic scholars has developed many control mechanisms and techniques among which the following are the…