Philip Lewis and Sadek Hamid give a public lecture on their new co-authored book British Muslims: New Directions in Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism published in June 2018. 

Miroslav Volf’s book, Allah: A Christian Response argues that Christians and Muslims believe in and worship the same God, a claim that has generated both praise and scorn at the popular and academic levels

Revd Dr Tess Kuin Lawton explores these issues using a close analysis of official documents and debates during a critical period of inter-faith awareness in the Church of England from 1966-1998, drawing conclusions for the Anglican approach to mission and diversity in the 21st century.

This paper explores the visible symbols that are used to mark religious tribal boundaries and asks whether Christians in the west may feel themselves to be at a disadvantage for lack of visual distinctiveness.

This talk presents doctoral research in 2015-16 with Arab and Western Christians providing support to Syrian refugees living in Jordan, and it explores implications of this encounter for Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and globally.

Despite recurring times of war and unrest in these lands we see in this archive an enduring commitment to the welfare of the whole of society by raising the status of women and girls through Bible based education.

This paper explores the Arab conquest of Egypt, and its immediate aftermath, through two sets of sources: the earliest Christian narrative of the conquest; and a series of spectacular but neglected documentary archives from the first decades of Arab rule.

Salvation in the Islamic Tradition in conversation with the Christian discussion of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism

The paper introduces the work of the research project ‘Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History’, which brings together the known writings by Christians and Muslims about and against one another for the period 600-1914.

A Christian chaplain and a Muslim chaplain share their experiences of working together at Woodhill prison.

This seminar explores the significance of a rising UK Muslim prison population as a criminological case study.

Sharing territory between different faith groups is an ever-growing reality of the contemporary world. It happens for a variety of reasons, but can it happen better, and what role does Christian or Muslim faith have to play in that?

This lecture explores the protection for the expression of religious convictions in the workplace under the Equality Act 2010.

This research argues that economic interests rather than religious fanaticism were the main causes for the riot of 1860. Furthermore, it argues that the riot was not a sudden eruption but rather a planned and organised affair.

Ethiopia is considered as one of the cultures which boasts historic peaceful Muslim-Christian coexistence. Part of the reason is that the identity of Ethiopian Islam was more coloured by indigenous culture than by religious ideology.

This paper examines how contemporary British Christian literature presents the sharī‘a, and in particular the dhimmī rules, in relation to non-Muslims.

One way of thinking in common about the human life as God desires it is to see it in terms of resonating with God’s Word—the Word through which we are created and kept in being; the Word expressed by God in human history.

Muslims are not alone in challenging notions of original sin and the sometimes rather mechanical theories of atonement and salvation that follow from it. Too often Christians seem to deny the goodness of God’s creation and even the justice and mercy of God.

The issue of revelation is one of the most contested questions between Muslims and Christians, but often degenerates into an unproductive argument about the textual reliability our respective scriptures, and the relative merits of Jesus and Muhammad.