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Rafiq A. Tschannen

Rafiq A. Tschannen is a Swiss national. He converted to Islam and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at the age of 16 after reading the German translation of the Holy Qur'an. He worked in 15 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, first as Finance Director in the private industry and later as Chief Executive Officer of NGOs and International Governmental Organizations. He is now devoting his time to The Muslim Times as Editor for Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Switzerland and as Associate Chief Editor.

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Why Is There So Little Shia–Sunni Dialogue?

Understanding the Deficit of Intra-Muslim Dialogue and Interreligious Peacemaking by Dino Krause 1,2,*,†,Isak Svensson 1 andGöran Larsson 3 1 Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden 2 Danish Institute for International Studies, Østbanegade 117, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Göteborg, […]

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The need for inter-faith dialogue

23rd March 2018 The Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, peace be on Him, was a great advocate of inter-faith dialogue. He opposed the distorted concept of Jihad i.e. the concept of attacking and killing non-believers with swords and promoted, not only in […]