The spaciousness of humanity and faith

I choose Abdel Wahab Al-Messiri a group of Western and Muslim thinkers from Europe, the Arab world, and Islamic Asia, preoccupied with the national, ethnic, and religious concerns of their peoples, and not among those thinkers who live in ivory towers far from the worries and problems of reality. This study reveals that these thinkers are more open and receptive to ideas derived from other civilizational experiences, and more lenient in their literal adherence to religious texts without overlooking the spirit and essence, despite their keenness not to deviate from the constants of religion. The study also answers a question that has haunted Dr. Al-Messiri about the common intellectual denominator among these thinkers despite their differing cultural and civilizational backgrounds. The answer lies in the humanistic tendency that affirms that the human self has existence, effectiveness, and independence within the comprehensive vision of existence and beyond existence. Dr. Al-Messiri's selections are governed by a clear and coherent logic of a mind engaged and capable of benefiting from every human creation that supports the value of humans and at the same time critiques all thought opposed to humanism.