West the attempt to expel God from reality has left a void that leads to a new search for meaning. In the Islamic world the idea that one can live without God produces as a reaction a dangerous drift
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LEADER
‘I do not Love what Fades’, Angelo Scola
FOCUS
Atheism at the End of the Line, Rémi Brague
Secularization Has Run Dry: Towards a New Humanism?, Francesco Botturi
Today’s Man: a Modest and Wandering Alchemist, Mauro Magatti
The Republic of Watchmen, Henri Hude
How Islamists (do not) Change when they Come into Power, Olivier Roy
‘We and They are the Same Thing’, Jawad al-Khoei
Where Islamists Distinguish Politics from Preaching, Hassan Rachik
The Seeds of Failure in the Utopia of a Caliphate, Tewfik Aclimandos
If Jihad is Fought in Bazaars, Hakan Yavuz
The Dissident Alliance Against Theocracy, Ramin Jahanbegloo
A Hand Outstretched to Terror, John Onaiyekan
DOCUMENTS
Faith: Hearing and Seeing, Massimo Borghesi
Being Established to Understand, H.H. Francis
The Temptation of ‘Yet Perhaps it is True’, Joseph Ratzinger
Prophecy is Fulfilled. It’s Reason Time, Martino Diez
The Eternal Secret of the Ego, Muhammad Iqbal
ENCOUNTERS
Can a Country be Emptied of its People?, Maria Laura Conte
A Three-Cents Life, Michel Kilo
‘Damascus will go back to Being a World Centre’, Maria Saadeh
The Ideal as the only Realistic Path to Follow, Martino Diez
A Mysterious Light in the Shadows, François Mourad
CONTRIBUTIONS
‘Let’s Wait for Tomorrow before Leaving’, Sr. M. Augusta Tescari OCSO
The Forbidden Fruits of Mount Lebanon, Suleiman A. Mourad
The Nail of the Cross in the Helmet-Diadem, Francesco Braschi
But when does Life in a Mother’s Womb Begin?, Paola Bernardini
REVIEWS
The Cassette Player Against the West, Jean Duchesne
If Politics Absorbs Theology, Michele Brignone
The Liberal Ditch Between Hadîth and the Qur’an, Martino Diez
Diary of a Journey and Arab Encounters, Ines Peta
When the Maronites Discovered Europe, Samir Khalil Samir
Multiculturalism in Flesh and Blood, Emma Neri
ART
COLOPHON
Biannual Journal of the Oasis International Foundation
Year 9°, Number 18, December 2013
Editor- in-chief Maria Laura Conte
Scientific Editor Martino Diez
Managing Editor Michele Brignone
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English translation: Catharine De Rienzo - Matthew Fforde
Arabic translation: François Eid - Michele Brignone - Martino Diez [from Arabic]
Urdu translation: Mobeen Shahid
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