{"id":30640,"date":"2026-06-27T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=30640"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:35:33","slug":"fitzgerald-a-priest-calls-for-knowledge-of-islam-and-the-holy-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/fitzgerald-a-priest-calls-for-knowledge-of-islam-and-the-holy-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFitzgerald\u201d; A priest calls for knowledge of Islam and the Holy Qur\u2019an"},"content":{"rendered":"

> **Michael Fitzgerald**, a priest in the Catholic Church and a specialist in Islamic affairs, has served as a representative of the Vatican in Tunisia, Egypt, and Uganda. For many years, he has been calling on Christians to become acquainted with the Islamic faith and the Holy Qur\u2019an.
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\n> The International Quran News Agency reported, citing the media website **NPR**, that **Michael Fitzgerald** was in the prime of his youth when he decided to travel from his homeland, Britain, to Africa for missionary work. After eight years, he began studying **Islamic law** and learned the **Arabic language** in Tunisia.
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\n> Since then, he has used his position to promote understanding between Muslims and Christians, and from that time onward he became a Catholic priest specializing in Islamic affairs.
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\n> Fitzgerald served as the **senior priest in Tunisia**, the **Vatican ambassador to Egypt**, and also the **Vatican\u2019s representative to the Arab League**. He is currently working to support friendship among religions by teaching the Qur\u2019an to Catholic students.
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\n> For many years, he has encouraged Christians to learn about the Islamic religion and its holy book, the Noble Qur\u2019an.
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\n> Some people could not tolerate a call toward Islam coming from a Catholic priest, but Fitzgerald, through his level of knowledge of Islam, was able to convince Muslim scholars of this.
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\n> **Zeki Saritoprak**, director of the Center for Islamic Studies at **John Carroll University** and a doctor of Islamic law, says that he has known Fitzgerald for a decade and has not seen any error in his teaching about Islam.
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\n> Zeki Saritoprak adds that Islamic traditions strongly emphasize specialization in a given field, and that our noble Prophet **(PBUH)** stressed the necessity of accepting the truth no matter who speaks it.<\/h4>\n

If you want, I can also provide:
\n– a **more natural journalistic English version**, or
\n– a **faithful literal translation** closer to the Arabic\/Persian wording.<\/h4>\n

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