The Joseph interfaith Foundation in association with
Dept. of Religions and Theology: The University of Manchester
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: The University of Exeter
Judaism and Islam: Dialectics of a Veiled Courtship
An Exploration of Jewish-Muslim Intellectual Interactions; 9th-13th Centuries
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)
- 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)
- Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Dr Sajjad Rizvi (University of Exeter)