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The Impact of Islam on Christian Political Theology 622 to 1453

This series for Autumn 2025 will be a collaboration between CMCS Oxford, Dr Steven Firmin (Research Associate of CMCSO and lecturer in Christian Ethics, University of Oxford) and The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH network).

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Martin Whittingham (Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies & Regent’s Park) , Steven Firmin
Timing: Mondays at 2:30pm
Web Address: https://www.cmcsoxford.org.uk/s/IICPTCMCSMTSeminarShortPoster21-1.pdf

Monday 20 October 2025

14:30 - The Development of the Melkite Legal Tradition under Islamic Rule
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
Dr Johannes Pahlitzsch (University of Mainz)

Monday 27 October 2025

14:30 - Coptic Political Identity & Resistance to Fatimid Rule: The Case of the Muslim Convert Būluṣ ibn Rajā
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
Dr David Bertaina (University of Illinois)

Monday 3 November 2025

14:30 - Images of the Caliphal Court in the History of the Patriarchs of the East in Kitāb al-Majdal
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
Dr Jonathan Stutz (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Monday 10 November 2025

14:30 - The True Religion Apology as Counter-Political Theology in Syriac & Coercive Force in Early Arabic True Religion Apologies
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
Dr Bert Jacobs (UC Louvain)

Monday 17 November 2025

15:30 - The Bishop’s Sulṭān and the Priest’s Wilāya: The Rule of Clerics in the Arabic Canons of al-Andalus
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
Dr Francisco Cintrón Mattei (University of Notre Dame)

Monday 24 November 2025

14:30 - Christian Juridical Traditions Under Islamic Rule in al-Andalus: Legal Theory and Social Practice
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
Dr Helen Flatley (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

15:30 - The Miaphysite Abu Qurrah: Transmitting Christian-Muslim Polemic across Confessional Lines
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
Shane Patrick (University of Oxford)

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