International Islamic Conference on Inter-faith Dialogue in Makkah

Makkah, June 05, SPA -- The International Islamic Conference on Inter-faith Dialogue, which was launched here earlier today under patronage of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and the auspices of the Muslim World League, held its first session tonight under the chairmanship of Dr. Saleh bin Abdullah binHomaid, Chairman of the Shoura Council.

This session was devoted to discussing the first topic titled "Islamic Authentication for Dialogue" which was presented by Dr. Saad bin Ali Al-Shehrani, Executive Director of the International Forum ofMuslim Scholars and Thinkers.

After that, Dr. Jawad Mohammad Mahdy Al-Khalesy, Rector of Al-Khalseya University in Iraq, talked about "Experiments of civilized dialogue across History" where he said that all human calls across history were built on dialogues carried out by owners of these calls or the people who were convinced of them to try convince more people of the rightness of their ideas and methodologies upon whichthese calls have been established.

Then, the Conference held its second session under Chairmanship of Dr. Nour Mohammad Hedaiet Waheed, Speaker of Indonesia's Parliament.

This session was devoted for discussing the topic of "Dialogue Parameters and its Legal Terms" discussed by each of Dr. Isam Ahmad Al-Bashir, Secretary General of the International Center for Moderation in Kuwait, as well as Dr. Salman bin Fahd Al Oudah,General Supervisor of the Institution of Islam Today. - SPA.