Although Jewish-Christian dialogues have been conducted succesfully since Vatican II, in the early 1960s, Jewish-Muslim dialogue remains at the embryonic stage up to the end of the twentieth century. It is because of this gap, and, at a time when religious fundamentalism has become a major threat to peace in different parts of the world, that Abdelwahab Hechiche has extended his commitment to Arab-Israeli, and Israeli-Palestinian peace to a more urgent, and more global need for a better Jewish-Muslim understanding. Using a rich variety of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic authoritative sources, the author shares Dr. Nooredeen Durkee's view that "When a muslim reads the Torah, he or she finds no real question of our shared beliefs, and, indeed, their common origin." Hechiche uses a systematic and studious effort in reviewing the evolution of Muslim's perception of Judaism and Jews throughout the centuries. Although he remains a strong believer in the Golden Age of Judaism under Islamic rule, and in what Bernard Lewis called a Jewish-Islamic symbiosis in Muslim Spain, Hechiche does not try to overlook the dark moment of Dhimmitude, those days when Jews were victimized by some Muslim rulers in total violation of some of the most important Islamic tenets contained in the Holy Quran regarding The People of the Book. A selection of verses of the Quran helps the author support his emotional and intellectual engagement in defense of inter-faith genuine dialogue, and in the imperative necessity to promote a genuine religious diversity as suggested by Arnold Toynbee, by Louis Massignon, and two distinguished scholars from the Maghrib, Mohammed Arkoun, and Mohammed Talbi. Whereas the author opens this book as a testimony of his life in his native Tunisia in a cosmopolitan and multi-confessional environment, his humanistic growth is based on academic studies at the Sorbonne, and the Institute for Advanced International Studies of the Faculty of Law in Paris. It was in Paris that Abdelwahab Hechiche received the Prix de la Vocation from La Fondation de la Vocation for his early commitment to peace in the Middle East. He was an intern at The United Nations, and a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in Virginia, and Florida. For the last thirty years, he has been a member of the faculty of the University of South Florida. He was a Fellow at the Southern Center for International Studies for the Dean Rusk Seminar, in Atlanta, Georgia, and twice a Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University. His participation in the Summer Sessions of the Euro-Arab University, in the activities of the US Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, and, in recent years, his cooperation with the American Jewish Committee's inter-faith activities have enriched him intellectually and spiritually.