During the week November 3-7 2008, 48 Muslim and Catholic theologians met in Rome to discuss a document elaborated last year by 138 senior Muslim scholars.
The document, A Common Word Between Us and You, proclaims itself to be an attempt to find common ground between the two religions in order to bring peace to the world.
The thesis of A Common Word is essentially that Christians should come to agreement with Muslims that love of God and love of neighbour are the most important aspects of the two faiths and therefore, instead of fighting one another, they should seek to outdo each other with good deeds.
