The Example of Common Path to Truth

Abstract

The article is a review for the book of Prof.Dr. Konul Bunyadzade “Wisdom of Love: Rabia al-Adawiyya and Edith Stein”. The author of the article notes that the book is very important as a chance to build a solid foundation for an ever greater communion between the two great monotheistic religions, precisely Islam and Christianity and to show how a “common” path of research can be followed. “Love” and “grace” are the benchmarks of this book where Bunyadzade compared the views of Rabia al-Adawiyya and Edith Stein – the true servers of their religions as Islam and Christianity. This book brings us back to the importance of a “community work” that can become a way of life, since the search for “Truth” cannot be conducted in isolation, but it needs the help of many associates in order to be reached. These features and the method of the book make it not only an unicum, but also a novum showing how it is possible to undertake such an itinerary when we let ourselves be guided by “Wisdom”. The “Wisdom” is a companion on the road who walks with us silently; only by crossing its silence we can understand how the words that arise from this silence are no longer those that we use in everyday language, but we can hear in it the words rich in meaning. Bunyadzade’s merit was that of restoring these "words" through the poetic language of Rabia and that of Edith in his Kreuzeswissenschaft (Scientia crucis), a work that she ended in the silence of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The author of the article notes that this book “infuses faith into humanity”. Moreover, it is also an ethical duty to continue to reflect on what the Author has so  Prof., Dr., Pontific Lateran University. frafrancescoalfieriofm@yahoo.it. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5775-1073. The Example of Common Path to Truth