“Love and Heart” are two revolutionary metaphors of Islamic mysticism. The multiple best-selling author Gerhard Schweizer explains what we can take from these two metaphors and the alternative thinking in oriental literature for the entrepreneurship of the 21st century on 18 May as part of the European Tolerance Talks 2018 in Fresach (2 p.m.). Gerhard Schweizer is a cultural scientist, Islam expert and author of numerous books on the relationship between the Orient and Occident. Travels have taken him to the Islamic, Indian and Chinese cultural areas since 1960. The basic theme of his books is the conflict between the Occident and non-European cultures, the topic of Islam takes up a large area. It shows why the Islamic and Occidental worlds are culturally intertwined and why fundamentalism will fail because of its internal contradictions. Love, gardens and other paradises Even later in the afternoon it promises to be exciting: the examples of alternative thinking in Islamic literature is about the question of whether and how traveling can really contribute to the understanding of other cultures. ORF correspondent Peter Fritz discusses with the Iranian artist Mitra Shahmoradi, the cultural scientist Michael Zinganel, the Slowfood specialist Harald Ertl and the authors Dorothea Nürnberg and Alexander Peer. (ws)
