Potentialities and points of departure for a dialogue between Islam and the West

The aim of this article is to point to some problematic aspects of intercultural dialogue between Islam and the West which stem from the general character of the process of globalisation. The right of individual cultures to conceive this general process of modernisation from the point of view of their own cultural perspective brings with it the danger of discrimination in basic normative specifics. For this reason it is necessary to open up potentialities and to seek points of departure for wider inter-normative agreement.