Name: Martin Whittingham
Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 17 October 2017

Seeing Muhammed in the Bible: on the lookout – in Isaiah 21:6-7 and elsewhere
Date: 17 October 2017, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Venue: Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TD
Venue Details: Charles Wellbeloved Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 December 2021

The Festival of Light
Date: 7 December 2021, 19:30 - 20:30
Speaker s: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park), John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum), The Revd Canon Dr Robin Gibbons (University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education), Dr Jesse Abelman (Museum of the Bible)
Venue Details: Zoom (registration required)
Organiser: Oxford Interfaith Forum (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Ottoman Muslim Responses to the Bible through the Centuries
Date: 21 January 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Ottoman Muslim Responses to the Bible through the Centuries
Date: 21 January 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Religious Freedom and its Discontents: A Historical Analysis of Muslim-Christian Relations in Turkey
Date: 28 January 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Anna Maria Beylunioglu (Koç University, Istanbul)
Venue Details: Zoom, online
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 3 February 2025

The Study of Shi'i-Islamic Prayer in Conversation with the Psalms
Date: 3 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr Vinay Khetia (Shi‘a Research Institute, Toronto), Dr Danny Crowther (Research Associate, CMCS Oxford)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

The Greek Orthodox of Istanbul: Christian-Muslim Relations at the Nexus of Historical Memory, Trauma, and Cosmopolitanism
Date: 11 February 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Philip Dorroll (Wofford College, South Carolina)
Venue Details: Zoom, online
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

A Harvest of Souls": Protestant Missionary Activities among the Nusayri Alawis in Ottoman Syria
Date: 18 February 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Necati Alkan (Independent Researcher)
Venue Details: Zoom, online
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Troubled Consciences: French Experiences of Alliance with the Ottomans in the 16th Century
Date: 4 March 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr David Harrap (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

The 1865 Arabic Bible: Challenges of Translation in Late Ottoman Society
Date: 11 March 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr David Grafton (Hartford International University, Connecticut)
Venue Details: Zoom, online
Organiser: The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Christian-Muslim Relations in Oman
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rev Dr Andrew Thompson
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift
Organiser: Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Christian Spirituality and Muslim Mysticism in the Life and Work of Bishop Kenneth Cragg
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rev Dr David Derrick (Retired Researcher)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift
Organisers: TBA
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Antichrist, the Prince of Persia and the Al-Aqsa Flood: Popular US uses of Daniel 9:24-27 and 10:13 to explain the Israel-Gaza War
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Ida Glaser (International Academic Coordinator and Founding Fellow, CMCS Oxford)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift.
Organiser: Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Two Christian Commentators on the Qur'an: The hermeneutics of Patriarch Timothy I (d.823) and Paul of Antioch (ca.1200)
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Isaac Wills (M.Phil student, Balliol College Oxford and CMCS Oxford Postgraduate Scholarship Holder)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift
Organiser: Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

The Greco-Arabic Translation Movement: The intertwined worlds of Muslims, Christians and Jews in 8th-10th century Baghdad
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Peter Starr (University of Warwick)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar in The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH. Upstairs room with no lift.
Organiser: Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Seeking Truth and Peace? Theological assumptions and developing constructive Muslim-Christian conversations
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Joy Hadden (M.A. Belfast Theological School)
Venue Details: Online-only event
Organiser: Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 13 October 2025

Coercive Force in Early Arabic True Religion Apologies
Date: 13 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Steven Firmin (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford, TORCH (University of Oxford )
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Sacred Texts in Tension and Dialogue: Christian Missionary Khuṭbas and Islamic Responses After Edinburgh 1910
Date: 16 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Serkan Ince (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar at Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH - Upstairs room with no lift
Organisers: Dr John Chesworth (Research Officer, Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1914 project, University of Birmingham), Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 20 October 2025

The Development of the Melkite Legal Tradition under Islamic Rule
Date: 20 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Johannes Pahlitzsch (University of Mainz)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 27 October 2025

Coptic Political Identity & Resistance to Fatimid Rule: The Case of the Muslim Convert Būluṣ ibn Rajā
Date: 27 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr David Bertaina (University of Illinois)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 3 November 2025

Images of the Caliphal Court in the History of the Patriarchs of the East in Kitāb al-Majdal
Date: 3 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Stutz (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 10 November 2025

The True Religion Apology as Counter-Political Theology in Syriac & Coercive Force in Early Arabic True Religion Apologies
Date: 10 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Bert Jacobs (UC Louvain)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 17 November 2025

The Bishop’s Sulṭān and the Priest’s Wilāya: The Rule of Clerics in the Arabic Canons of al-Andalus
Date: 17 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Francisco Cintrón Mattei (University of Notre Dame)
Venue Details: Room 56 (hybrid seminar) Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 24 November 2025

Christian Juridical Traditions Under Islamic Rule in al-Andalus: Legal Theory and Social Practice
Date: 24 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Flatley (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

The Miaphysite Abu Qurrah: Transmitting Christian-Muslim Polemic across Confessional Lines
Date: 2 December 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Shane Patrick (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 63 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 16 October 2025

Sacred Texts in Tension and Dialogue: Christian Missionary Khuṭbas and Islamic Responses After Edinburgh 1910
Date: 16 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Serkan Ince (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Venue Details: Hybrid Zoom seminar at Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, The Song School, 109A Iffley Rd, OX4 1EH - Upstairs room with no lift
Organisers: Dr John Chesworth (Research Officer, Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1914 project, University of Birmingham), Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Host: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 20 October 2025

The Development of the Melkite Legal Tradition under Islamic Rule
Date: 20 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Johannes Pahlitzsch (University of Mainz)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 27 October 2025

Coptic Political Identity & Resistance to Fatimid Rule: The Case of the Muslim Convert Būluṣ ibn Rajā
Date: 27 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr David Bertaina (University of Illinois)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 3 November 2025

Images of the Caliphal Court in the History of the Patriarchs of the East in Kitāb al-Majdal
Date: 3 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Stutz (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 10 November 2025

The True Religion Apology as Counter-Political Theology in Syriac & Coercive Force in Early Arabic True Religion Apologies
Date: 10 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Bert Jacobs (UC Louvain)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 17 November 2025

The Bishop’s Sulṭān and the Priest’s Wilāya: The Rule of Clerics in the Arabic Canons of al-Andalus
Date: 17 November 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Francisco Cintrón Mattei (University of Notre Dame)
Venue Details: Room 56 (hybrid seminar) Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Monday 24 November 2025

Christian Juridical Traditions Under Islamic Rule in al-Andalus: Legal Theory and Social Practice
Date: 24 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Flatley (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 56 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

The Miaphysite Abu Qurrah: Transmitting Christian-Muslim Polemic across Confessional Lines
Date: 2 December 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Shane Patrick (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 63 (hybrid seminar), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
Organisers: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)
Hosts: Steven Firmin, Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park)