A virtual event presentation by Rick Sopher and Abdulla Galadari
ABOUT THE EVENT:
A Jewish and a Muslim co-author will dive into the connections, similarities and differences between the Qur’an and the Torah to bring out points of Jewish interest.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Rick Sopher is a key figure in interfaith scriptural dialogue, especially known for fostering relations between Jewish and Muslim communities. He is a fellow of the Woolf Institute, an academic institute in Cambridge, England, dedicated to the study of interfaith relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In 2007 French President Jacques Chirac awarded him with the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur for his work in religious education.
Abdulla Galadari is an associate professor of Islamic studies at Khalifa University of Science and Technology. He is the author of Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Between Science, History, and the Bible, Metaphors of Death and Resurrection in the Qur’an: An Intertextual Approach with Biblical and Rabbinic Literature, and Spiritual Meanings of the Ḥajj Rituals: A Philological Approach.