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President Torrance participated in a conference on A Common Word and future Christian-Muslim engagement, held October 15 at Lambeth. Leading Muslim and Christian scholars attended the conference and issued a communique. Read the full text of the communique.

President Torrance with HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal, personal envoy and advisor of H.M. King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and chairman of the board of the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

Archbishop of Canterbury, H.E. Shaikh Dr. Ali Gomma, and Metropolitan Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, participants at the Lambeth conference on A Common Word.


 

Participants List - Muslims

H.E. Shaykh Prof. Dr Ali Gomaa Mohamed Abdel Wahab
- Grand Mufti - Republic of Egypt

Prof. Dr. Allamah Shaykh 'Mohammad Said' Ramadan Malla Al-Buti
- Dean, Department of Religion - University of Damascus

H.E. Prof. Dr Allamah Shaykh Abdallahi Ould Cheikh El Mahfoudh Ould Boye
- Professor, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia
- Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars - Founder and President, Global Center for Renewal and Guidance

Shaykh Al-Habib Omar bin Mohammed bin Salem Ban Hafedh
- Dean, Dar Al-Mustafa, Tarim

H.E. Shaykh Prof. Dr Mustafa Ceric
- Grand Mufti - Head of Ulema of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Prof. Dr H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal
- Personal Envoy and Special Advisor of H.M. King Abdullah II
- Chairman of the Board, Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

Prof. Dr Ingrid Mattson
- Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations
- Director, Islamic Chaplaincy Program, Hartford Seminary
- President, Islamic Society of North America

Shaykh Al-Habib Ali Zain Al-Abidin Al-Jifri
- Founder and Director, Taba Institute, United Arab Emirates

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad Winter
- Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
- Director of the Muslim Academic Trust, UK

Prof. Dr. Aref Ali Nayed
- Former Professor, Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome
- Former Professor, International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization, Malaysia
- Senior Advisor, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

Shaykh Amr Mohamed Helmy Khaled
- Islamic Missionary, Preacher and Broadcaster
- Founder and Chairman, Right Start Foundation International

Ayatollah Prof. Dr Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Ahmad Abadi Damad
- Dean of Department of Islamic Studies, The Academy of Science of Iran
- Professor of Law and Islamic Philosophy, Tehran University
- Fellow, The Iranian Academy of Sciences

H.E. Dr. Abdulaziz Otham Al-Twaijri
- Director-General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Prof. Dr Abderrahmane Taha
- President, Wisdom Circle for Thinkers and Researchers
- Director, Al-Umma Al-Wasat Magazine
- International Union of Muslim Scholars

Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar
- Director, Iqbal Academy, Lahore

Mr Sohail Nakhooda
- Editor-in-Chief, Islamica Magazine

Mr Fuad Nahdi
- President, Radical Middle Way
- Specialist member, Christian-Muslim Forum, UK

Participants List - Christians

The Most Revd & Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams
- Archbishop of Canterbury

His Beatitude Gregorios III Laham
- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch & All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem

Metropolitan Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim
- Metropolitan, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo

The Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali
- Bishop of Rochester, Church of England
- Co-President of the Anglican Communion's Network for Inter Faith Concerns

The Rt Revd David Hamid
- Bishop in Europe, Church of England

The Rt Revd Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon
- Bishop of Kaduna, Nigeria
- Co-President of the Anglican Communion's Network for Inter Faith Concerns
- President of the Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa

Professor Iain Torrance
- President, Princeton Theological Seminary

Professor Frances Young
- Professor Emeritus, Formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor University of Birmingham

Professor David Ford
- Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge
- Director, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

Professor Miroslav Volf
- Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School
- Director, Yale Center for Faith and Culture

Prof Oddbjorn Leirvik
- Professor of Interreligious Studies, University of Oslo

Prof. Fr Emmanuel Clapsis
- Professor Ordinarius, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, USA
- Ecumenical Patriarch

Abbot Timothy Wright OSB
- Advisor on Inter Religious Affairs to the Abbot Primate of the Order of St Benedict

The Revd Prof. Christian W. Troll SJ
- Honorary Professor, Kolleg St Georgen, Germany

The Revd Dr Daniel Madigan SJ
- Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University

Dr Nicholas Adams
- Academic Director, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

Revd Dr Mindawati Perangin-angin
- Head of the Ecumenical Bureau of the Karo Batah Protestant Church of Indonesia

Pfrin. Susanna Faust
- Representative for Interreligious Dialogue, Ecumenical Center,
- Evangelical Church of Germany

Revd Canon Anthony Ball
- Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for International and Inter-Religious Relations