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"… I wish to express to you the high regard in which I hold all
those who, like you, contribute to a deeper and truer
understanding of religions. Your book is part of a battle against
obscurantism and its derivatives. I hope that it reaches the
audience it deserves and that it finds great success."
Jack Lang
President of the Arab World Institute
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Paris (France), May 3 2016

"… Your work will be an inexhaustible source for all questing
scholars, not only for its answers on an eschatological level, but
also, more simply, for its pacifist and placatory dimension, in that
it enables, thanks to the discovery and knowledge of the Other, the
dissipation of prejudices and fears for harmony between peoples."
Bassirou Sène
Senegalese Ambassador in France
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Paris (France), April 29 2016

"… Infringements of cultural diversity and religious liberty are
violations of inalienable human rights, while also threatening the
very foundations of our societies – their social make-up, their
cohesion. I also wish to sincerely congratulate you for your
commitment, synonymous with an authentic, rigorous and
scientific plea in favour of the promotion and defence of the
universal values which are at the heart of UNESCO’s mission, and
which defend a vision of humanity which welcomes cultures and
religions in their plurality and their cultural wealth – a humanity
where mutual respect and harmonious coexistence are a daily quest
…"
Irina Bokova
Director General of UNESCO
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Paris (France), April 28 2016

"… The Sun Rises in the West: Science for the Hour has become a
global reference. At the confluence of the linguistic and the
numerical, you have drawn from the infinite fountain of the Koran
to demonstrate, with clarity, the simultaneously eternal and
infallible nature of the Word of God. Beyond divisions and dogmas,
in a laudable show of intellectual generosity, you have extended the
scope of your research to the Sacred Books of monotheism, to