Introducing a framework to generate new conversations about inter-religious dialogue and create a community of religions, Shai Har-El argues that Islam and Judaism, sister religions, are closely related to one another with roots intertwined in the land, in the language, and in the memories of shared history.

Shai Har-El is a historian, educator, writer, poet, rabbi, and businessman. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he focused on the interdisciplinary study of the Middle East. He is the author of Struggle for Domination in the Middle East: The Ottoman-Mamluk War, 1485-1491 (1995) and Where Islam and Judaism Join (forthcoming).