A constituição de Medina como um documento de diálogo inter-religioso do Islam

Abstract

This paper examines the interreligious dialogue from the Islamic point of view based on the Constitution of Medina, written and signed by Muslims and Jews between the years 622-624 of the common era. Our objective is to problematize the position of Islam in relation to the interreligious dialogue and the importance of the aforementioned document in this position. To achieve our goal, we have adopted the bibliographic and historical method in view of two different readings in the analysis of the Constitutionof Medina and its emergency context. The first reading is a horizontal reading that briefly analyzes the document and its context. The second is a vertical reading adopting only a few items of the referred document, the most essential and considered as the basis of the others, for a better understanding of an eventual or non-opening of Islam for inter-religious dialogue. Through our analysis, we conclude that the items in the document we have adopted signal a dialogical opening and assume an inclusive dialogue from the point of view of some of the concepts used. Finally, it must be made clear that the Constitution of Medina is a document more of a political than a religious nature, but because it is part of the construction of the first Islamic society and the first Islamic state, it is important for a better understanding of interreligious dialogue and Islam. Furthermore, we must emphasize that not only is the document dialogical, but the process that culminated it is also a process that can be considered inter-religious dialogue