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David Marshall

Research director or fellow Independant

After studying theology at Oxford University David Marshall gained a doctorate in Islamic studies at Birmingham University. He has since worked in a variety of contexts, including as Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2000 to 2005, where he had responsibility for interfaith relations. In 2002 he helped launch the Building Bridges Seminar, one of the world’s leading projects in theological dialogue between Muslim and Christian scholars, and has been involved in this project ever since. Since 2012, Building Bridges has been directed from Georgetown University, where Marshall is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Much of his work has been in the field of theological education. He has taught at St Paul’s University (Limuru, Kenya), Edinburgh University, Duke Divinity School, and Georgetown University.

From 2018-2021 he served as programme executive in interreligious dialogue and co-operation at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, with particular responsibility for Christian-Jewish and Christian-Muslim relations.

Currently, he teaches at the Institut für Christkatholische Theologie, Theology Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland; and he is guest editor of the journal Islamochristiana (PISAI, Rome).

Disciplines

Islam Studies Quranic Studies

Thématiques

Muslim-Christian Dialogue

Resources of this researcher

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Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends

Michel Younès

Publication date: April 16, 2026. Islam, as a historical, religious, and civilizational reality, is difficult to define. It can be perceived as a form of political governance, an expression of fait...

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The Event of the Qur’an: Islam in its Scripture

Timo Güzelmansur

Published as Das Ereignis des Koran. Der Islam in seiner Schrift (Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2026), this volume is the first German translation of the classic work by the Anglican Islamic...

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A Theology of Violence: An Analysis of Selected Surahs from the Qur’an

Hamideh Mohagheghi

Published as Theologie der Gewalt. Eine Analyse ausgewählter Suren aus dem Koran (Münster: Waxmann, 2026), this book by Hamideh Mohagheghi is the published version of her doctoral thesis (defended ...

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Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter

Klaus von Stosch
Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar

Edited by Zishan Ghaffar (University of Paderborn) and Klaus von Stosch, professor of systematic theology at the University of Bonn and member of the coordination committee of Pluriel, this collect...

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The Genre of the Mawlid Narrative in the mid-12th h./18th Century as Exemplified by al-Barzanjī

Antonio Cuciniello

Among the works of Arabic literature concerning the genre of Mawlid, certainly al-Barzanjī’s Mawlid is a text that has achieved great popularity and spread to large parts of the Islamic world. Inde...

videos

The History of the Quran according to Muslim Sources

Gabriel Said Reynolds

Professors Shady Nasser from Harvard and Gabriel Reynolds from the University of Notre Dame explore the history of the revelation and compilation of the Quran according to traditional Muslim source...

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Jesus in Recent Qur’an Translations | The Jesus of the Qur’an vs. the Jesus of the New Testament

Gabriel Said Reynolds

In this video, Gabriel Said Reynolds discusses the presentation of Jesus in the Qur'an and how it is interpreted and rendered in English by recent translations of the Qur'an. I show that recent tra...

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Islam and Scientific Examination: A Renewed Quest

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Dominique Avon

“How can we establish an objective, rigorous, and detached study of Islam in the face of the excesses generated by its politicization? It is to answer this burning question that the French In...