Monday, 4 September
8:30-9:15: Arrival, Registration, Coffee, and Tea
9:15-9:30: Welcome and Conference Introduction by Dr Joshua Ralston
9:30-10:45: Opening Lectures
- Prof Mona Siddiqui: The One God and the Oneness of God
- Prof Klaus Von Stosch: Reframing Qur’anic Prophetology in Dialogue with Modern Christology
10:45-11:15: Coffee and Tea Break
11:15-12:45: Reframing Essentialism in Christian-Muslim Studies
Chair: Dr Abdul Rahman Mustafa
- Prof Daniel Madigan: What is Islam? What is Christianity? Applying Shahab Ahmed’s Hermeneutics Across Boundaries
- Prof David Grafton: Looking for the essential Muslim: A critique of common Interfaith engagement and a proposal for Particular Intercommunal Christian-Muslim Relations from below
- Jr Prof Wietske de Jong-Kumru: A Postcolonial Look at Christian-Muslim Encounter in the Netherlands: Facing the Indonesian Mirror
12:45-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:30: Reframing Polemics in Christian-Muslim Debates
Chair: Mr Tom Lea
- Mr Wagdy Elisha: Polemics as an Act of Communal Self-Defense: Egyptian Christian Televangelist Zakaria Botros as a Model
- Mr Hans Harmakaputra: Contesting the Meaning of ‘Unbelievers’ in Indonesia: An Islamic Fatwa on the Prohibition of Wearing Non-Muslim’s Attributes and a Christian Response
- Mr Josef Linnhoff: At least they aren’t Shi‘a’: Christianity as a means of internal Muslim critique in the works of Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul Wahhab (d. 1792)
15:30-16:00: Coffee and Tea Break
16:00-17:30: New Frameworks for Imagining Engagement
Chair: Dr Nayla Tabbara
- Dr Peter Walker: On the Vision of God: Nicholas of Cusa’ Interreligious Imagination
- Ms Kathryn Heidelberger: Mary, the Prophet: A Constructive Proposal for furthering Interfaith Relationships
- Dr Fadi Daou: Religious Social Responsibility: A common call for authenticity
17:30-19:00: Break
19:00: Dinner in Rainy Hall, New College, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday, 5 September
9:00-10:45: Christian-Muslim Encounters and the Question of Justice
Chair:
- Dr Mitri Raheb: Christian-Muslim Encounters in context of Empire: A Middle Eastern/Palestinian Perspective
- Prof Anne Hege Grung: Gender Justice as a working concept in Muslim -Christian studies: Challenges and possibilities of transformations
- Dr David Decosimo: Liberating Islam: Freedom as an Islamic Value
10:45-11:15: Coffee and Tea Break
11:15-12:45: Christian-Muslim Relations and Philosophical Theology
Chair: Prof Klaus Von Stosch
- Dr Abdul Rahman Mustafa: Meaning and Interpretation: Reading Traditional Islamic Thought in light of Philosophy of Language
- Dr Gorazd Andrejč: Expressing Christian-Muslim Disagreements in Today’s Europe
- Dr Taraneh Wilkinson: The Creative Space of Dialectics: Turkish Muslim Philosophical Theology
12:45-13:45: Lunch
13:45-15:15: Reframing Christian Approaches to Islam and Dialogue
Chair: Dr Deanna F Womack
- Prof Tarek Mitri: Reflections on Christian-Muslim relations and dialogue in the Arab world
- Mr Neven Vukic: Orthodox Christianity and Islam in the Aftermath of the Council of Crete
- Dr Joshua Hollmann: Nicholas of Cusa and Christian-Muslim Dialogue Past and Present
15:15-15:45: Coffee and Tea Break
15:45-17:15: Reframing Classical Theological Loci
Chair: Prof Iain Torrance
- Prof Paul Heck: Divine Favour and Pain in Christian and Muslim Traditions
- Jr Prof Muna Tatari: Divine Action: An Islamic Approach in Conversation with Process Theology
- Dr Serafettin Pektas: Imago Raḥmān: Christian-Muslim Convergence on Modern Theological Anthropology
Dinner on your own in the City of Edinburgh
Wednesday, 6 September
9:00-10:30: Grounding Theological Encounter
Chair: Prof Hugh Goddard
- Dr Nayla Tabbara: Spiritual solidarity as a new paradigm for interreligious relations
- Mr David G Kibble: Christian-Muslim (and Jewish) Engagement: Moving Beyond Traditional Theological Models
- Prof Pamela Couture: Christian-Muslim Student Encounter through Experiential Pedagogical Methods
10:30-11:00: Coffee and Tea Break
11:00-12:30: Islamic Scripture and Approaches to Christianity
Chair: Dr Matthew Novenson
- Dr Joseph Lumbard: Rereading Qur’an Condemnations
- Ms Doaa Baumi: Paul from an Islamic Perspective
- Mr Yusuf Çelik: Reframing the ethics and the salvific message of the Qur’an in reference to Muslim-Christian relations: the historicist Qur’an hermeneutics of Mustafa Öztürk
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:00: Difference, Similarity, and Debates
Chair: Prof Mona Siddiqui
- Dr Joshua Ralston: al-Furqān and the Question of Commonalities
- Dr Leonard Chrysostomos: Excorcising ‘Allah’: The Anti-Islamic Rhetoric among the Indonesian Sacred Namers
- Dr Nevin Reda: Christian-Muslim Encounter and the Challenges of Translation: Reframing ‘Islam’ in Christian Theological Schools
15:00-16:00: Closing Discussion and Next Steps
17:30-19:00: Public Book Launch and Reception, Divine Hospitality by Fadi Daou and Nayla Tabbara
All lectures in Martin Hall, New College, University of Edinburgh