"Al Azhar welcomes every institute built on the good study for the sake of sincere worship of God, to follow the good moralities, to spread the kind virtues among people and to declare the spirit of Brotherhood, Tolerance, Freedom and Peace among all the members of human society.
    Besides that, Al Azhar thanks those who assist in building such kind of institute and preparing it for the good aims and purposes mentioned above."

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ICONOCLAST- 13 January 1999

Salima, Salome, Solomon, Suleiman, Salem, Shalom, Jerusalem, Suleimanyia, Muslim, Islam, etc. are self-explanatory names and terms.  One question thus arising and which everybody can seek to answer for himself is:  what do these names and terms have in common other than their common roots, i.e. the consonants S, L and M?  The SLM Center seeks to address this and related questions, such as those posed by the vision of the French Minister for Culture, the late André Malraux, that the "next century will be spiritual, or it will not be!"  Contributions are solicited without discrimination from leaders, scholars and laymen from all religions, nations and communities.  For the time being, they may be sent either by e-mail to: swissbit@solami.com  or by snail-mail to:  CORUM, box 2580, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland.  Unless specified otherwise, the editor considers himself authorized to reproduce these contributions notably on this website free of charge and with full credit to each author, and/or to utilize the material thus received as the editor sees fit in the course of the evolving studies, debates and conferences.