DICID Participates in Conference ‘Dialogue between Islam and Eastern Religions’

16 Feb DICID Participates in Conference ‘Dialogue between Islam and Eastern Religions’

An international conference of dialogue between Islam and Eastern religions was inaugurated in February 2010 by Shri M. Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India. The conference was held by major Indian Muslim organisations with the cooperation of Jamia Millia Islamia’s Zakir Husain Institute of Islamic Studies and the Qatar-based World Union of Muslim Scholars.
The inaugural session of the conference, was held at the Ansari Auditorium of the Jamia Millia, presided over by the President of Jamiat Ulama-e Hind, Maulana Arshad Madni. Special invitees include Dr. Ibrahim Al-Naimi, chairman of the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue and World Union of Muslim Scholars’s vice president Prof. Ali Al-Quradaghi.
Important Muslim, Hindu, Buddhisht, Jain and Sikh religious leaders and scholars took part in the conference from across India as well as neighbouring countries. Participants include Shankaracharya Onkaranand Saraswati of Prayag, Jain TV’s Dr. JK Jain, Sikh member of Pakistani parliament Dr Araish Kumar, Art of Livings’ Swami Sadyojathah, Swami Shantatmananda of Ramakrishna Mission, Dr. K.J. Yesudas and members of Parliament Sardar Tarlochan Singh, Santosh Bagrodia and M. Rama Jois.
The conference aimed at building better social relations between believers of various faiths in South Asia and open ways of communication and understanding between the people of the region. Delegates of all eastern religions from across the country as well as Nepal, Pakistan, Srilanka and some Arab countries are taking part in the conference.