
The Shared History collection devotes its pages to telling the story of relations between Jews and Muslims in the land of Islam. These 12 books on the history of Jewish communities from Morocco to Iran will allow educators, students and the public at large to learn and understand the long history of Jews in each one of these countries, before and after the arrival of Islam.
The project seeks to promote peace and understanding between peoples by:
- Countering ignorance and anti-Semitic myths among Muslims, particularly the younger generations, by sharing the common history of Jews and Muslims living in different parts of the Middle East and North Africa for centuries.
- Distributing books about Jewish-Muslim history in book fairs, bookshops and libraries within the Muslim world.
- Initiating a process, with the active help of UNESCO, whereby the Jewish component of the history of these countries will be included in their respective textbooks.
- 36 Books
- 5 Languages
- 13 Countries

Historians from All Sides Working Together
The initiative reflects the efforts of the Aladdin Project to promote a greater knowledge of History and its lessons, particularly for the younger generations, to facilitate a rapprochement of cultures. The uniqueness of the project is that the twelve historians writing the books have diverse backgrounds, coming from Jewish, Muslim or Christian traditions. As the books are translated into Arabic (and also Turkish and Persian), they provide for the first time an opportunity for young Arabs and Muslims to learn about this history in an undistorted fashion. The twelve books are about the following countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Israel & Palestine, Yemen, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon, Iran, Libya, Iraq, and medieval Spain. A scientific committee, composed of eminent historians and experts, and chaired by Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary, a Moroccan philosopher, supervises the work on the series. The series editor is Michel Abitbol, a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of numerous studies on North African Jewry.

Religious Tolerance Education for Young Imams, Priests, and Rabbis
Growing anti-Semitism and religious tensions, as well as the manipulation of religion for political purposes, led the Aladdin Project to compile a standard textbook for young imams, priests, and rabbis. The "Know the Religion of thy Neighbor" project has produced a 300-page book approved by the highest authorities of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in order to teach young theologians—imams, rabbis, and priests—during training seminars, on the religion of the Other, and to counter the myths and stereotypes that prevail in certain spheres of religious education. The book was published in French in 2018 by the Parole et Silence publishing house. The authors were appointed by a high inter-religious committee gathering the highest representatives of each religion. The committee is co-chaired by Grand Rabbi René-Samuel Sirat, former Chief Rabbi of France and holder of the “UNESCO Religions of the Book, spiritual traditions and specific cultures” Chair, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, Archbishop emeritus of Paris, and Dr. Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti emeritus of Egypt.
