The publication, Schede per conoscere l’Islam (“Sheets for Understanding Islam”), was prepared by the CEI and the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI). It comprises 11 teaching sheets intended for use in Catholic religious instruction in Italian schools. They were presented at Palazzo Borromeo in Rome on October 21, at an event attended by Cardinal Matteo Zuppi.

Sheet 2 describes Muhammad as “chosen by God to carry His message and to establish and guide the new community of believers.” It also presents him as an ideal believer whose life became a model for Muslims.

Sheet 4 bears the title “The Quran: The Revealed Word of God.”

Its text states: “The Word of God, unknowable in itself, becomes accessible to human beings through the oral recitation and written reading of the Quran.”

It continues: “In time and space, God makes himself present through the attribute of the Word, embodied in the sacred text.”

Sheet 9 states: “The Quran and the Bible represent the Word of God.” It also describes the Quran as “the direct Word of God,” preserved in heaven on guarded tablets and revealed to Muhammad.

Sheet 11 reproduces a passage from the 2019 Abu Dhabi declaration, stating that the different religions are God’s wise will.

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