The Epistemological and Ideological roots of Religious Tolerance in the Civilizations

Abstract

The religious tolerance topicis so important, and especially these days where plague has multiplied in the Islamic religion, and attempts to falsify its bright reality have increased.In this research, we clarifiedthe extent of space provided in the verses of the Holy Koranand the purified Sunna, and the writings of Islamic Scholars of the meaning of Mercy and Pardon, which meanings are the principles of tolerance that was enrooted in the history of Humanity before the appearance of Islam and after it and were the manifestation and the fruits of it. In this research we clarified the positive roots of the meaning of Tolerance, and which is a part of the nature of Islam and its essence, where Tolerance characterized the behavior of Muslims in the measure of their compliance with the teaching of Islam in all ages and countries, and relation between Tolerance and Islam, in abolishing racial segregation, and the acceptance of diversity and co-existing with others in a way that was so rare in thehistory of other different civilizations