Christian-Muslim Political Theology
Comparative Theology has emerged as important and instructive field of studies that makes sense of encounters between people from different and diverse ways of life by connecting confessional and comparative approaches to analyzing and assessing religion(s). Theologians who work in this field are interested in learning from each other across divides. However, while the relevance of comparative theology for politics is evident, there is a gap at the very foundations of comparative-theological scholarship on politics.
Funded by Gingko’s Werner Mark Linz Memorial Grant, a workshop to be hosted at the Bonn Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues from 26 to 27 June 2025 aims to fill this very gap for Christian-Muslim political theology. It brings together experts on Christian political thought and experts on Muslim political thought to tease out what the two theological thought traditions can learn from each other in view of contemporary politics. Together with the co-organizers Fatima Tofighi (Bonn) and Ulrich Schmiedel (Lund), they will work on the chapters for a two-volume Comparative Companion to Christian-Muslim Political Theology to be published with Gingko Press.