The New Testament in Muslim Eyes: the author speaks about his new book on Galatians
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Paper presented by Dr Shabbir Akhtar on 12th February 2019 at CMCS Oxford.
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Seminar and Lecture Recordings
When possible, with the agreement of the speaker, the audio recordings of our seminars and lectures are made available online approximately 7 days after the event.
Arabic-Speaking Christians on the Medieval Frontier: the Mozarabs of Toledo and Christian-Muslim relations in Iberia
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Seminar given by Helen Flatley on 5th February 2019 at CMCS Oxford.
Read MoreRecent Issues in Christian-Muslim Relations
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A Public Lecture given by Professor Hugh Goddard on 4th December 2018 at CMCS Oxford.
Read MoreEarly steps on the path to codifying Islamic law
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Paper presented by Shahanaz Begum on Tuesday 27th November 2018 at CMCS Oxford.
Read MoreInterpreting the Qur'an on relations with other faiths
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Paper presented by Jáchym Šenkyřík at CMCS Oxford on Tuesday 20th November 2018.
Read MoreBeyond Dialogue: an exploration of the model for Muslim-Christian exchange used by the Musalaha organisation and its application in the UK context
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Paper presented by Revd Canon Dr Phil Rawlings on Tuesday 30th October 2018 at CMCS Oxford.
Read MoreCrusaders and Franciscans - contemporary evangelical attitudes to Muslims and Islam
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Paper presented by Greg Smith on Tuesday 23rd October 2018 at CMCS Oxford.
Read MoreBritish Muslims
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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.
Read MoreInterrogating the Christian-Muslim Conundrum in Boko Haram’s Terrorist Campaign
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Are the attacks on Christians and churches distraction from Boko Haram’s original objective? Why is Boko Haram attacking mosques and Muslims? Is Boko Haram’s anti-Christian narrative justifiable? This paper attempts to answer all these questions.
Read MoreDo Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
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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
Read MoreDoes the Anglican Church have a Theology of Religious Pluralism?
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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.
Read MoreSigns of Faith: Visible identity markers in contemporary Islam and Christianity
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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.
Read MoreChristian-Muslim Relations in Jordan: local responses to the Syrian refugee crisis
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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.
Read MoreExploring the role of women in Christian mission in Syria and Egypt from 1860-1930s through the MECO Archive in the CMCS Library
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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.
Read MoreWriting the History of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt
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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.
Read MoreTowards Building a Muslim Theology of Religions
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Salvation in the Islamic Tradition in conversation with the Christian discussion of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism
Read MoreWriting About the ‘Other’: Christians and Muslims in the Safavid (Persian) Empire during the 17th Century
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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.
Read MoreSharing Prison: Christian and Muslim chaplaincy experiences in UK prisons
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A Christian chaplain and a Muslim chaplain share their experiences of working together at Woodhill prison.
Read MoreBritish Muslim Prisoners: challenges and opportunities of a multi-faith agenda
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This seminar explores the significance of a rising UK Muslim prison population as a criminological case study.
Read MoreConversion, Conflict, Good Relations?: exploring an agenda for research into the implications of sharing territory
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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?
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