Unity in Faith: Prince Charles’ Addren

We need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for Wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages. Islam called Jews and Christians the peoples of the books, because they, like Muslims, are a part of a religion of sacred texts: the Qur’an the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament. And what was so distinctive of the great ages of faith was that they understood that, as well as sacred text, there is art of interpretation of sacred texts – and this is a difficult and subtle art that gave rise in Islam to great principles of interpretation and great schools of jurisprudence.