Human sciences are necessary in an inter-religious dialogue, because they allow seeing conditionality and limits of religion. So believers descend from an absolute position to a contingent one, where people can meet. The paper presents firstly questions posed to Muslims concerning the origins of their religion. A crucial difference between holy and scientific historiography is presented in the second part. The last part discuss both the difficulties met by use of human sciences in Islam and the necessity of their use for the success of inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4756826
There is a deficit in trust between the West and the Muslim world. Among reasons for it are a secularist Christophobic fundamentalism and Islamic monoreligionism. Meanwhile the influence of Christianity is weak; Islam totally pervades its world. The studies of ancient and contemporary Christian minorities, especially Iran and Saudi Arabia, illustrate difficulties linked to this monoreligionism. Transcending the dictatorship of secularist Christophobic fundamentalism and of Islamic monoreligionism will allow the creation of new opportunities for mutual trust, dialogue and peaceful coexistence.
COBISS.SI-ID: 5003610