Abstract

This article aims to explore the perspective of interreligious dialogue of the Tunisian thinker Mohamed Talbi. For the author, religions have the potential to lay the theoretical foundations for a dialogue capable to create a shared world ethos. In discussing this pluralistic ethos, we will first focus on the peculiar hermeneutic method adopted by Talbi and defined by himself as the «intentional» or «vectorial» reading of the Koran. In a second step, then, we will proceed to show how this hermeneutic of dialogue must pass through a radical reflection on human nature and its freedom. Finally, we will show how, for Talbi, true faith in God must be understood as service rendered to one’s neighbor according to an idea of fraternity founded precisely on a principle of common humanity