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Relations between the Catholic Church and Islam deals with the current attitude of the Catholic Church towards Islam, as well as the attitude of Islam towards the Catholic Church and Catholics, and notable changes in the relationship since the 20th century.
In the 7th century text Due to geographical proximity, most of the early Christian critiques of Islam were associated with Eastern Christians. The In the 20th century the attitude in the Catholic started to change in the aftermath of World War II and there was a stronger interest in exchange and dialogue. This was sparked among other factors by influential personalities such as the mystic and desert explorer Charles de Foucauld who promoted respect for the Muslim religion Christian-Muslim dialogue and the common living together with Muslims.[3] The International Meetings at the monastery of Toumliline, held between 1956 and 1964, provided a platform for intellectuals as well as Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars to speak about contemporary issues as well as about faith.[4] At the same time, the AIM (Aid for Implementation of Monasticism) under Benedictine Cornelius Thomsen promoted the interaction of their monks with people of all races and religions and thus opening ways of dialogue.[5]
The question of Islam was not on the agenda when Early in 1964 The period between the first and second sessions saw the change of pontiff from Pope John XXIII to Pope Paul VI, who had been a member of the circle (the Badaliya) of the Islamologist Louis Massignon. Pope Paul VI chose to follow the path recommended by Maximos IV and he therefore established commissions to introduce what would become paragraphs on the Muslims in two different documents, one of them being Nostra aetate, paragraph three, the other being Lumen gentium, paragraph 16: both statements are very similar and overlap.[8]
The text of the final draft bore traces of Massignon's influence. The reference to Though there are no monks in Islam, the DIMMID (Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique - Monastic Interreligious Dialogue) has been actively promoting spiritual exchange with both Shia and Sunni Muslims. As such, the first international monastic/Muslim dialogue was organised in 2011 by the DIMMID in Sant’Anselmo, attended among others by Iranian scholar Mohammad Ali Shomali.[10]
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