DANIEL A. MADIGAN S.J.
Office: Residence:
Department of Theology Woodstock Jesuit Community
Georgetown University Washington, D.C., 20007
Washington, D.C., 20057 U.S.A.
U.S.A.
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CURRENT POSITIONS
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington D.C.
Jeanette W. and Otto J. Ruesch Family Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Theology
Senior Fellow, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center
Member of Associate Faculty, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Member Standing Committee on Academic Integrity, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Honorary Professorial Fellow
PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE, Vatican City.
Consultor of the Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims 2005 2010.
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Theological Studies
Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniensis
Satya Nilayam: Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy
Dilatato Corde: on-line journal of the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
Christian Commentaries on Non-Christian Sacred Texts (Peeters, Leuven)
EDUCATION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY.
Ph.D. in Islamic Religion, awarded with Distinction, February 1997. Dissertation: The Kit b of
which there is no doubt ... Books, writing and canon in the Qur n s description of itself.
Examiners: William A. Graham (supervisor), Jeanette A. Wakin, Peter J. Awn (sponsor),
David Weiss Halivni, Celia M. Deutsch. Published Ann-Arbor: U.M.I., 1997.
M. Phil., awarded May 1993.
Certificate in Southern Asia, School of International and Public Affairs.
Faculty Fellow 1989 90; President s Fellow 1990 94.
Member of Graduate School Advisory Council, 1990 1992.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA.
Exchange Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1992 1994.
Fellow-in-Residence, Center for the Study of World Religions, 1992 3.
DAR COMBONI INSTITUTE OF ARABIC, Cairo, Egypt, 1988 89.
Graduated from 2 year programme summa cum laude.
VIDYAJYOTI INSTITUTE OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Delhi, India, 1984 5.
Studies in Islam and Urdu.
MELBOURNE COLLEGE OF DIVINITY, Melbourne, Australia. 1980 83.
Bachelor of Divinity, December, 1983.
Member of the College, 1982, 1983.
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Member of B. Theol. Board, 1982, 1983.
JESUIT THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, Melbourne. 1973, 1980 83, 1985.
Studies in Philosophy and Theology for Bachelor of Divinity and for ordination in the Roman
Catholic Church. Member of College Council 1981, 1982.
MONASH UNIVERSITY, Melbourne. 1974 77.
Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History; first ranked in History Department,
December 1977.
TEACHING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008 present GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGY
Associate Professor. Undergraduate courses taught: Islamic Religious Thought and Practice;
Muslims, Jews and Christians; Who Can Be Saved?; Exploring the Qur n; Senior Theology
Majors Seminar on Religious Pluralism. Graduate seminars taught: The Qur n and its
Readers; Christian Theologies Responsive to Islam. Completed doctoral dissertation
supervised: Towards a Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism: The Qur'an, Feminist
Theology and Religious Diversity, by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey (April, 2011).
WOODSTOCK JESUIT COMMUNITY, Washington DC
2008 2010
Community Superior.
WOODSTOCK THEOLOGICAL CENTER, Washington DC
2007 2008
International Visiting Fellow.
PONTIFICAL GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY, Rome
2000 2007
Asst. Professor of Islamic Studies and Interreligious Dialogue. Courses taught: Muslims and
Christians; Introduction to Christianity for believers of other traditions (in English and
French); Classical Sufi texts; Islam the formative years; Concepts of faith and revelation
in the Abrahamic traditions; Three spiritual classics from Asia; Musulmani e cristiani; Lo
sviluppo dell islam classico; Il Corano e la sua interpretazione; Dialogo e missione; Temi
della teologia cristiana; Teologia e pluralismo religioso.
Completed doctoral dissertations supervised: The implications of Muslim and Christian
feminist discourse for interreligious dialogue: a case study of northern Nigeria, by
Kathleen Anne Marie McGarvey (Faculty of Missiology, PUG, 2006); Le pluralisme
religieux selon l Islam by M. Moustapha Ousmane (Al-Zaytuna University, Tunis, 2007).
Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures. Responsible for the
development and administration of an interdisciplinary Master s programme designed to
prepare people to work in the field of interreligious dialogue. Responsibilities: preparation
of the accreditation proposal (2000 2002), involving curriculum design and the
development of statutes and regulations; liaison with Jesuit and Vatican authorities;
faculty recruitment; establishing and maintaining international academic networks and
exchange programmes; strategic planning; fundraising.
ORATORIO DI SAN FRANCESCO SAVERIO DEL CARAVITA, Rome
2001 2007
Rector
ANKARA UNIVERSITY, Ankara, Turkey
2003 2007
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Divinity
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, Budapest
July 2005
Visiting Professor, Summer University
BOSTON COLLEGE, Chestnut Hill, MA
July
Aug 2005 Visiting Professor, Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
JESUIT PUBLICATIONS, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Jan 1998
Sept 1999 Executive Director.
Publisher of the magazines Eureka Street, a journal of public affairs, theology and the arts;
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Madonna, a magazine of popular spirituality; and Australian Catholics, a school- and family-
oriented, general magazine.
Publisher of Aurora Books.
THE UNITED FACULTY OF THEOLOGY, Melbourne, Victoria
Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Theology of Religions. Consultant to Ecumenical Affairs
Commissions of the dioceses of Melbourne and Sandhurst. Adult education lecturer.
PACIFICA: JOURNAL OF THE MELBOURNE COLLEGE OF DIVINITY
Editor-in-chief. A journal of theology, scripture and church history.
NEWMAN COLLEGE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, Victoria
Chaplain
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY.
1991 97
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Religion, 1997.
Seminars on Sufi texts (undergraduate), Muhammad and the Jews (graduate), and lecture
course on the early history of Islam (mixed). General introduction to Islam: lecture course for
incoming doctoral students.
Lecturer, National Resource Center for International Studies, 1997.
Lectures for High School teachers: Introduction to Islam, and Islam in Asia.
Instructor in Urdu, Dept. of Middle East Languages and Cultures, 1991, 1994.
Taught introductory, intermediate and advanced Urdu language and literature.
Teaching Assistant and Reader for courses on Qur n and on Islamic Civilization, Dept. of Middle
East and Asian Languages and Cultures. 1992, 1994.
Departmental Research Assistant, Dept. of Religion, 1991 1992.
Assisted in academic advising of senior theses.
Rapporteur, University Seminar on Tradition and Change in South and South-East Asia, 1991 2.
Lecturer, Institute of Asian Studies, Inc., In-service course on Middle East for pre-collegiate
educators, 1994.
ADULT EDUCATION COURSES in New York Area.
1991
Lectured on Judaism, Christianity and Islam at Riverside Church, New York, NY; Sth
Presbyterian Church, Dobbs Ferry, NY; and Montclair Adult School, NJ.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, New York, NY.
1990
Adjunct Professor in Middle East Studies Program.
Referee for International Philosophical Quarterly.
PASTORAL INSTITUTE, Multan, Pakistan.
1987 88
Founding Editor, Umeed-e-Nau a bilingual (Urdu/English) journal of theology and spirituality.
LOYOLA HALL, Lahore, Pakistan.
1985 88
Assistant Director and Dean of Students
Responsible for undergraduate and graduate students living in multi-religious environment:
Tutor in English, Urdu and Chemistry. Lecturer in Church History.
Librarian (1986 88)
Responsible for small (10,000 vols.) library, specializing in the study of religions (esp. Islam)
and the history and culture of the Indian Sub-continent.
Director, Murree Language Programme (1987)
Responsible for three-month residential intensive language courses in Urdu and Punjabi.
Founding Member, Pakistan Association for Inter-Religious Dialogue.
Member, Catholic Diocese of Lahore Commission on Muslim-Christian Dialogue.
Acting Director, WAVE Studios, Lahore (1986 7)
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS, Melbourne, Australia.
1981 83
Production Assistant and scriptwriter, television.
Responsible for scripting and production of weekly network-broadcast program, Sunday
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Magazine.
Producer and director, radio and educational video.
ST. ALOYSIUS COLLEGE, Sydney, Australia.
1978 79
Taught High School Modern History, Mathematics, General Science, Latin, Religion, Music and
Drama. Coached Rugby.
LANGUAGES
English (native speaker), Urdu, Italian and French.
More limited oral communication; reading ability: Arabic, Spanish and German.
For research: Biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Farsi, Hindi, Latin, Greek.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Academy of Religion
American Oriental Society
Australian Catholic Theological Association
Catholic Theological Society of America
Middle East Studies Association
Society for Biblical Literature
PUBLICATIONS
The Qur n s Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam s Scripture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
The Uncertain Edges of the Authoritative Text: Where Is the Authority of the Qur n Actually Located? In
Thomas Hoffmann and Jean Butler (eds.) Qur anic Studies: Literary and Hermeneutical Dimensions, Leiden: E. J.
Brill, forthcoming.
God s Word to the World: Jesus and the Qur n, Incarnation and Recitation. In Terence Merrigan and Frederik
Glorieux (eds.), Godhead here in hiding: Incarnation and the history of human suffering. Leuven: Peeters,
forthcoming, 143 158.
Particularity, Universality and Finality: Insights from the Gospel of John. In David Marshall (ed.),
Communicating the Word. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011.
The Body of Christ: 1 Corinthians 11:23-27 and 12:12-13, 27. In David Marshall (ed.), Communicating the Word.
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011.
Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Difficult Times. In James Heft (ed.), Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Human Alienation: al-Baqara 2:36 39; T H 20:115 24. In" Michael Ipgrave and David Marshall (eds.),
Humanity: Texts and Contexts: Christian and Muslim Perspectives. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press,
2011.
Yahya bin Zakariya, Giovanni Battista e il Culmine della Profezia. In Paolo Gamberini (ed.), Un profeta e tre
religioni: Giovanni Battista nei Monoteismi. Trapani: Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 2011.
Saving Dominus Iesus, in James Heft, Reuven Firestone and Omid Safi (eds.), Learned Ignorance: An Investigation
into Humility in Interreligious Dialogue among Christians, Muslims and Jews. New York: Oxford, 2011.
Mutual Theological Hospitality: Doing Theology In The Presence Of The Other in Waleed El-Ansary and
David K. Linnan (eds.), Muslim & Christian Understanding: Theory and Application of "A Common Word".
Palgrave, 2010, 57 66.
The Believers (Sura 23) and Biblical Criticism. III. Islam. In The Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception.
Berlin; NY: de Gruyter, 2010.
Abraham (Sura 14) and Arius, Arianism II Islam. In The Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception vol. 1.
Berlin; NY: de Gruyter, 2009.
Some Aspects of Christian Theologizing in Relation to Islam Asia Christian Review 2 (2008): 2 & 3, 24 30.
Small is Beautiful: Dialogue and the Future of the Planet. In F. Imoda and R. Papini (eds.), The Catholic Church
and the International Policy of the Holy See L glise Catholique et la Politique Internationale du Saint-Si ge. Milano:
Edizioni Nagard, 2008, 224 231.
Foreword to Gabriel Saeed Reynolds (ed.), The Qur n in its Historical Context. London: Routledge, 2007, x xii.
Islam. In Diccionario del Espiritualidad Ignaciana. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero, 2007, 1046 1050.
People of the Word: Reading John s Prologue with a Muslim. Review and Expositor 104.1 (Winter 2007): 81 95.
Pope Paul VI s map of the Church in dialogue: are we still following it? in G. Archetti (ed.), Le dialogue possible:
Paul VI et les cultures contemporaines. Brescia: Istituto Paolo VI, 2007, 29 34.
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Nostra Aetate and the Questions it Chose to Leave Open. Gregorianum 87.4 (2006): 781 796.
Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Difficult Times. Notes e Documents: Institut Internationale Jacques Maritain, n.s. 5
(2006), 10 22.
Themes and Topics. Chapter four of The Cambridge Companion to the Qur an, edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 80 95. Reprinted in Islam, edited by Mona Siddiqui. SAGE
Benchmarks in Religious Studies. London, SAGE Publications, 2010.
The Limits of Self-referentiality in the Qur n, in Stefan Wild (ed.) Self-referentiality in the Qur n; Diskurse der
Arabistik 11. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2006, 59 70.
A response to Sebastian Painadath s Diversity of Religions, Unity in Spirituality, in Religious Experience and
Contemporary Theological Epistemology, edited by L. Boeve, Y. De Maeseneer and S. Van den Bossche. Leuven:
Peeters, 2005, 153 158.
Jesus and Muhammad: the sufficiency of prophecy, in Michael Ipgrave (ed.), Bearing the Word: Prophecy in
Biblical And Qu'ranic Perspective. Church Publishing, 2005.
Morte e dopo morte nel pensiero islamico in A. Lambertino (ed.), Homo Moriens: saggi sull'aldil e sul destino
ultimo dell'uomo, Parma: Monte Universit, 2004, 89 103.
Article Sacred Texts: Koran in The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Scribners, 2004, iv: 2164 7.
Articles Preserved Tablet, and Revelation and Inspiration in Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed., The Encyclopaedia of
the Qur n, vol. 4. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004.
Gavin D Costa s Vatican II and the status of other religions as salvific structures : a response. In Liam Bergin
(ed.), Faith, Word and Culture, Dublin: Columba, 2004, 25 31.
Liturgy in a religiously plural world: Muslim and Christian worship in dialogue in K. F. Pecklers (ed.), Liturgy
in a Postmodern World. London; New York: Continuum, 2003, 169 176
Mary and Muhammad: Bearers of the Word. Australasian Catholic Record 80 (2003) 417 427.
Gottes Botschaft an die Welt: Christen und Muslime, Jesus und der Koran. Communio 32.1 (2003): 100 12.
The Word of God In Muslim Theology: Virtually Trinitarian? Rome: Jesuit Secretariate for Interreligious
Dialogue, 2002.
Ryan, John in O Neill and Dominguez, eds., Diccionario Hist rico de la Compa ia de Jes s (Roma: Institutum
Historicum S.I., 2001) 4:3450.
Articles Book and Criterion in Jane Dammen McAuliffe, ed., The Encyclopaedia of the Qur n, vol. 1. Leiden: E.
J. Brill, 2001.
"When experience leads us to different beliefs." The Way Supplement, number 92, Summer 1998, Spirituality and
religious experience, 64 74.
The search for Islam s scholasticism. In Scholasticism: Cross-Cultural and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Jos
Ignacio Cabez n. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
The Kit b of which there is no doubt ... Books, writing and canon in the Qur n s description of itself. Ph.D.
Dissertation, Columbia University. Published Ann-Arbor: U.M.I., 1997.
Reflections on some current directions in Qur anic studies. The Muslim World 85 (1995): 345 362.
Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer? A reflection on the passion and death of Jesus. Umeed-e-
Nau (Multan, Pakistan) no. 3 (1989): 4 8.
Your will be done. Passive fatalism or programme for liberation? Umeed-e-Nau (Multan, Pakistan) no. 2 (1989):
14 23.
In search of a way into the Eucharist. Umeed-e-Nau (Multan, Pakistan), 1 (1988) 14 31.
Pakistan s Emerging Theology. Focus (Multan, Pakistan) 8 (1988): 21 36.
John Ryan (1849 1922). Australian Dictionary of Biography. General Editor, Geoffrey Searle. Melbourne:
Melbourne University Press, 1986, 11: 93 4.
The Trinity in Muslim-Christian Dialogue. Salaam (Islamic Studies Association, N. Delhi), 5, 6 (1984 5).
That s not a need; that s a right! Produced and directed by Daniel A. Madigan. Melbourne: Catholic
Communications, 1984. Videocassette, 47 mins.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of Ninth-Century Palestine, by Sidney H. Griffith. Journal of the American
Oriental Society 116.2 (1996).
The Challenge of the Scriptures, by the Muslim-Christian Research Group. Pacifica: Australian Theological Studies 4
(1991): 96 98.
Islam and War, by John Kelsay. Theological Studies 55 (1994): 395 6.
Muhammad and the Origins of Islam, by F. E. Peters. Theological Studies 56 (1995): 397 8.
The Qur n as Text, edited by Stefan Wild. Journal of the American Oriental Society, December 1999.
Shi`ite Islam, by Yann Richard. Theological Studies, 57 (1996), 773 774.
The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam, by G. R. Hawting, Islamic Studies Quarterly.
Qur n Translation: discourse, texture and exegesis by Hussein Abdul Raof, Islam and Muslim Christian Relations
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13(2002): 338 340.
INVITED AND ACCEPTED PAPERS:
What has Mecca to do with Jerusalem? Qur anic studies in the light of the AAR and SBL reuniting. Panel
presentation at AAR and SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (19-21 November, 2011)
Thinking about Muslims in the light of Ignatian Christology and Soteriology. Jesuits Among Muslims Meeting,
Gregorian University, Rome (15-19 September, 2011).
Mutual Theological Hospitality in Ecumenical and Interfaith Arenas. National Conference of Ecumenical nd
Interfaith Commissions, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Adelaide, South
Australia (4 September, 2011)
Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Difficult Times. Public Lecture, The Hawke Centre, University of South Australia
(2 September, 2011).
Abraham s Baggage: What our three traditions have forced him to bear. Conference on Abraham for the 21st
Century McKillop Place, North Sydney (10 July, 2011).
Muslims and Christians in Prayer: Mutual Perceptions. Tenth Building Bridges Seminar, Doha, Qatar (16-19 May,
2011). http://vimeo.com/26970083 beginning at 28:00.
Yahya Ibn Zakaria and John the Baptist: The End and Ends of Prophecy in Comparative Theological
Perspective. European Intensive Doctoral Seminar Translating God(s) in Europe, Divinity Faculty, Marmara
University, Istanbul (2-4 May, 2011).
To What Extent Can a Christian Think of the Qur n as Scripture? Seminar on Christian Theological Response to
Islam, Second Session, Campion Hall, Oxford (14-15 January, 2011).
The Import of Recent Developments in the Historiography of Early Islam on a Christian Understanding of
Muhammad. Seminar on Christian Theological Response to Islam, First Session, Campion Hall, Oxford (12-13
November, 2010).
The uncertain edges of the authoritative text: where is the authority of the Qur n actually located? American
Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta (30 Oct 1 Nov, 2010).
Trends in non-Muslim Readings of the Qur an. Conference on New Approaches to Qur an and Exegesis
George Mason University, 23-24 October, 2010. http://vimeo.com/24842271 beginning at 20:06, continuing on
http://vimeo.com/24842720, then http://vimeo.com/24843584 and http://vimeo.com/24844366.
What does Comparative Theology mean in the case of Islam and Christianity? Translating God(s) in Europe:
Post Graduate Intensive Program. Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin (20-26 June, 2010).
The Right to be Wrong: the legitimacy and limits of religious freedom. Conference on Peace and Human Rights
in the Abrahamic Traditions. Trinity College, Dublin (29-30 May, 2010).
When it comes to salvation, where exactly is outside ? Conference on Islam, Salvation and the Fate of the Other.
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (16-17 April, 2010) .
Negotiating Diverse Faith Commitments in the Qur anic Classroom. Society of Biblical Literature Annual
Meeting, New Orleans (27-30 November, 2009).
Rethinking the term Islamophobia. Conference on Islamophobia: The Experience in Worlds Old and New.
Lessons from Europe and Australia. Monash University, Melbourne (18 19 July, 2009).
Nostra Aetate s unanswered questions. Conference: From Dialogue to Collaboration: The Vision of Fethullah
G len and Muslim-Christian Relations. Australian Catholic University, Melbourne (15 16 July, 2009).
Does the Muslim Notion of God as One (tawhid) Contradict the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity? Catholic
Theological Society of America Convention. Halifax, Nova Scotia (4 7 June, 2009).
Mutual Theological Hospitality Doing theology in the presence of the other. Rudolph C. Barnes Sr.
Symposium: Theory and Application of A Common Word. University of South Carolina Law School (26-27
March, 2009). Video available at: http://www.lfip.org/barnes/2009/videopage.htm .
Some Aspects of Christian Theologizing in Relation to Islam. Intra-Christian Consultation on Christian Self-
Understanding in Relation to Islam. World Council of Churches, Geneva (18 20 October, 2008).
The way forward from here. Conference A Common Word and the Future of Muslim-Christian Engagement.
Cambridge University (12 15 October, 2008).
John the Baptist, Yahya b. Zakariya and the End of Prophecy. The Catholic Theological Society of America,
Miami (5 8 June, 2008).
Particularity, Universality and Finality in Revelation. Seventh Building Bridges Seminar, Villa Palazzola, Rome
(5 8 May, 2008).
Catholicism and Islam. Institute of Advanced Catholic Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
(19 February, 2008).
A Word in Common between Us and You : Getting our Categories Right in the Theological Encounter. Catholic
University of America, Washington DC (7 February, 2008).
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The Vatican and Islam. Al-Waleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University,
Washington DC (12 September, 2007).
Dominus Iesus, Insiders and Outsiders. Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies (University of Southern
California), Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem (19 21 June, 2007).
Small is Beautiful : Sustainable dialogue and the Future of the Planet. Course for diplomats from the Middle
East and the Mediterranean: La Chiesa cattolica e la politica internazionale della Santa Sede, Turin (23 May
2007).
The Vocabulary and Grammar of Dialogue. Conference Il Dialogo Interculturale: una Sfida per la Pace,
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (3 4 May, 2007).
Immigrazione ed identit culturali e religiose: sfide morali. Associazione Tologica Italiana per lo Studio della
Morale, Pontificia Facolt Teologica dell Italia Meridionale (Sezione San Luigi), Napoli (10 April, 2007).
Kalima siw baynan wa baynakum: the theological language of Muslim-Christian dialogue. Faculty of Divinity,
Marmara University, Istanbul (2 April, 2007).
From Regensburg to the Blue Mosque: Pope Benedict s Journey. Faculty of Divinity, Ankara University (26
March, 2007).
The Language of Dialogue. Annual Conference of the National Board of Religion Inspectors and Advisors
(England and Wales), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (5 6 March, 2007).
The Faith of Muslims and the Christian Theological Agenda. Department of Theology, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC (1 February, 2007).
Esperienza e Dialogo Interreligioso. Scuola per Assistenti Sociali F. Stagno d Alcontres, Modica, Sicily (19 20
October, 2006).
Muslim-Christian dialogue in difficult times. Jesuits Among Muslims Meeting, Deir Mar Musa, Syria (5 10
September, 2006).
The Church and Salvation: where exactly is outside ? Evangelisation and Culture in a Jesuit Light". Jesuit Jubilee
Conference, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne (28-30 July, 2006).
God s Word to the World: Jesus and the Qur n; Incarnation and Recitation. Adelaide College of Divinity
Annual Lecture, Adelaide, South Australia (13 July, 2006).
Pope Paul's VI s "map" of the Church in dialogue: are we still following it? Colloque Le dialogue possible: Paul
VI et les cultures contemporaines UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 13 d cembre 2005.
God s Word to the World: Jesus and the Qur n; Incarnation and Recitation. Keynote address, Fifth Leuven
Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST V), Katholieke Universitet Leuven (2 5 November, 2005).
Negotiating canons: the multidimensional nature of scriptural authority Public lecture, Central European
University, Budapest (13 July, 2005).
Is What the Text Once Said What It Actually Means? Conference Towards a New Reading of the Qur' n?
University of Notre Dame (April 2 4, 2005).
La possibilit di un etica globale. Facolt di Diritto, Universit degli Studi di Bari (8 November, 2004).
Religious Studies and Interreligious Dialogue: Problems and Possibilities, Parliament of the World s Religions,
Barcelona (8 14 July, 2004).
Concepts of writing and scripture in the Qur n and late-antique Syrian Christianity, Colloquium on the late
antique roots of the Quranic concept of prophets, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton (2 4 June, 2004).
The Limits of Qur nic Self-Referentiality, Colloquium on the Self-referentialty of the Qur n,
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (26 28 May, 2004).
Jesus and Muhammad: The Sufficiency of Prophecy, Third Building Bridges Seminar, Georgetown University,
Washington DC (29 March 1 April, 2004).
Canonization and Negotiation: In What does the Authority of the Qur n Consist? International Qur nic
Studies Conference, University of Copenhagen (5 7 March 2004).
A Response to Sebastian Painadath s Diversity of Religions, Unity in Spirituality. Fourth Leuven Encounters in
Systematic Theology (LEST IV), Catholic University of Leuven (5 8 November 2003).
A Response to Gavin D Costa s Vatican II and the status of other religions as salvific structures, Irish College,
Rome (9 May, 2003).
What kind of dialogue is possible between Islam and Christianity? Institute for International Sociology, Gorizia
(Italy) (12 September 2002).
The Blurred Edges of the Authoritative Text. International Colloquium Al-Kitab : the sacredness of the text in
the Islamic world. Catholic University of Leuven (29 May 1 June, 2002)
The Word of God In Muslim Theology: Virtually Trinitarian? Conference on Trinitarian Faith as Radical
Monotheism, Centre Culturel La Baume, Aix-en-Provence (2 7 April 2002).
Abraham: Father Or Friend? Conference on Abraham and Pilgrimage, Gregorian University, November 2000.
Mary and Muhammad: Bearers of the Word. Conference on Mary in Islam, Faculty of Divinity, University of
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Cambridge, 14 October 2000.
Abraham, Scripture and Law. International Symposium on Abraham as a Symbol of Belief and Bond of Unity.
Urfa and Istanbul, 13 16 April, 2000.
A Theology for Dialogue in Asia. Keynote address to the Fourth Asian Journey, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12
January, 2000.
Dialogue and Nation Building in Asia: Issues of Modernization. Address to a joint conference of The Asian
Journey and The Movement for a Just World. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 15 January, 2000.
The Qur n s enigmatic kit b: a new reading. Islamic Studies Seminar, University of Melbourne, 25 March, 1999.
Islam and the Christian Theological Agenda. Australian Catholic Theological Association, Melbourne, 4 July,
1998.
Unbinding the Book: a rereading of the Qur n s enigmatic kit b. University Seminar on Arabic Studies,
Columbia University, New York, 13 November, 1997.
Books and Writing in the Qur n s understanding of itself. University Seminar on Medieval Studies, Columbia
University, New York, 7 October, 1997.