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'The Gospels in Islamic Context: Function and Content'
is now out
Georgina Jardim, Ida Glaser and Shirin Shafaie have done the editing work, and there are chapters from another 15 contributors. It's in hardback so expensive, but you can read the front matter and Ida Glaser's introduction freely in the 'Preview' on the publisher's website.
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Current project:
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Daniel, Islam, Apocalyptic
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Recordings from the symposia are on our the 'Recordings' page.
Papers and Power Points are posted in the 'Forum'
Book editors: Azadeh Rezaie and Ida Glaser
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We began with two half days on Feb 24th and 25th, 2022 (see program below), and continue to meet on the second and fourth Friday of each month at 0900 Houston time/1500 UK time with a series of symposia and a reading group.
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A READING GROUP read through the biblical book of Daniel chapter by chapter, considering Qur'anic and other intertexts and other issues on the Muslim-Christian interface. See the 'Biblical Daniel Reading Group' on the 'Share Space' page of this website.
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​​​Program for the first symposium:
24th: 0930-1330 Houston time/ 1530-1930 Oxford time
Interpreting the biblical book of Daniel:
Introduction: Ida Glaser, chair (CMCS Oxford and CMCS Houston); William Martin (Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University)
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John Goldingay (Fuller Theological Seminary emeritus), 'The Story of Daniel'
Respondents: John Collins (Yale), Emad Botros (Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, Beirut), Judith Mendelsohn Rood (Biola University emerita)
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Reception of the biblical book of Daniel and associated apocalyptic in Islamic contexts:
Nilufar Abdusatarova (Bible Society of Uzbekistan), 'The Tomb of Daniel in Samarkand'
Azadeh Rezaei (Iran; Islamic Apocalyptic Research Group), 'The Tomb of Daniel in Susa'
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25th: 0930-1330 Houston time/1530-1930 Oxford time
Interpreting Islam through Daniel: historical examples from Christian and Jewish writings
Chair: Ana Valdez (University of Lisbon)
Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockhom University), 'The reception of Daniel in the Eastern Christian post-Islamic apocalyptic literature'
Michael Graves (Wheaton College), 'Muslims and Christians among the kingdoms of the world in medieval Jewish commentaries on Daniel'
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Interpreting Islam in the USA today: popular apocalypse and views of Islam
Chair: Alex Massad (CMCS Houston)
Jon Stone, California State University, 'Naming the ‘Islamic’ Anti-Christ: Mapping the shifting terrain of pre- and post-9/11 American millennialist speculation'
Responses
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Books in Routledge's Reading the Bible in Islamic Context Series
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Click on the covers for more information...​
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