An international research network exploring the representation of Muslim identities in contemporary cultural discourses.

Judaism and Islam: Dialectics of a Veiled Courtship

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• Language and Revelation:
Development of philology and grammar and their centrality in textual exegesis

Professor Philip Alexander
University of Manchester
Dr Timothy Winter
University of Cambridge
Chair: Professor Mona Siddiqui
University of Glasgow

• Sectarianism versus Orthodoxy:
Establishment of dogma and promotion of religious homogeneity

Dr Amira Bennison
University of Cambridge
Professor Marc Saperstein
Leo Baeck College, London
Chair: Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (retired)

• Uniformity in Religion:
Development of liturgy and ritual as means of unification of religious communities

Dr Sajjad Rizvi
University of Exeter
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue
Chair: Dr Jeremy Schonfield
Leo Baeck College, London

• Theology:
The polarity of reason and literalism in scriptural hermeneutics

Professor Bernard Jackson
University of Manchester
Dr Toby Mayer
The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Chair: Dr Basil Mustafa
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

• Maimonides and Ibn Rushd:
The hegemony of the scholar as a religious leader

Professor Azim Nanji
The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Professor Oliver Leaman
University of Kentucky, USA
Chair: Professor Mona Siddiqui
University of Glasgow

• Mysticism:
The challenges of antinomianism to religious asceticism

Professor Paul Fenton
La Sorbonne, Universite de Paris
Dr Leonard Lewisohn
University of Exeter
Chair: Dr Sajjad Rizvi
University of Exeter

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