The Director of the Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue at the University of Dhaka shares why he started to become involved in interfaith issues to begin with and why he thinks knowledge ist the most important basis for any interfiath endeavour.

Bangladesh is a Muslim majority country that is known throughout the world as a country of interreligious and intercultural harmony. The University of Dhaka in Bangladesh has taken a pioneering role in establishing a Centre for Inter-religious and Intercultural Dialogue (CIID), whose Director is Prof. Kazi Nurul Islam. The Centre is involved in several activities such as intercultural dialogues and studies, seminars and workshops etc.