ABSTRACT
Mohamed Talbi is a twentieth-century Tunisian historian of North Africa and writer on Islamic religious thought and affairs. As a religious writer particularly concerned with Islam's views on and relations with other religions — especially the religions of the Ahl al-Kitab — Talbi has written extensively on the traditional Islamic foundations (as he sees thern) for the theory and practice of inter-religious dialogue. 1 For Talbi this is itself part of a larger effort towards the construction of a modern Islamic thought which would reconsider, among other things, the nature of, and proper approaches to, traditional sources and ideas. There is an integration, then, of Talbi's ideas on inter-religious relations and his general Islamic religious thought. 2
