Common Ground - Islam and Buddhism

First published in 2010 by
Fons Vitae
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Louisville, KY 40207
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© Copyright The Royal Aal-Bayt Institute
for Islamic Thought, Jordan 2010
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010925171
ISBN 978–1891785627
No part of this book may be reproduced
in any form without prior permission of
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With gratitude to the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation
for the use of the fourteenth century Qur’ānic shamsiyya
lotus image found in Splendours of Qur’ān Calligraphy
and Illumination by Martin Lings. We also thank Justin
Majzub for his artistic rendition of this beautiful motif.
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