Działalność Rajmunda Llulla w Afryce Północnej (XIII i XIV wiek). Początki dialogu chrześcijańsko-muzułmańskiego
Work of Raimund Llull in North Africa (13th and 14th centuries). Beginnings of Christian-Moslem dialogue

The article is focusing on the circumstances of three missionary trips of Raimund Llull to Africa (to Tunisia in the years 1292-1293, Bejaia in 1307 and again to Tunisia between 1314 and 1315). In the first part of the article, after a brief presenta

Summary/Abstract: The article is focusing on the circumstances of three missionary trips of Raimund Llull to Africa (to Tunisia in the years 1292-1293, Bejaia in 1307 and again to Tunisia between 1314 and 1315). In the first part of the article, after a brief presentation of the life and achievements of Raimund Llull, the background of mutual relations between Aragon and the North-African state ruled by the Hafsids, which became an area of missionary activity in that part of the world, was presented. Pursuant to the selected writings of the scholar, motives were presented, on which he based his missionary activity. Some special focus is directed on the activity among the Moslems and the methods he suggested in that type of work according to the mission-theological thought of the 13th century. The article also shows the influence of the events connected with his subsequent travels to Africa on the modification of the reflection on the problem of converting the Moslems on the basis of a dialogue. Llull, resorting to the reason and using philosophical arguments, referred to the common elements of the both religions as the common ground for agreement and mutual understanding. In this way he pointed to some new principles of acting on the meeting point of the western Christian world and the Islam domain.

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