Team Detail

Research Interests:

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Scriptural Reasoning and the intersection of gender and religion. She has published on the topics of female characterisation in the Bible and Qur’an, including a brief analysis of Muslim women’s role in the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Recent Publications:

‘David Livingstone’, in D. Thomas and J. Chesworth (eds), Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, volume 19 Africa South of the Sahara and Latin America (1800-1914), Leiden: Brill, 2022

‘Biblical Ruth as a Qur’anic Queen of Sheba: Scriptural Narratives of Foreigner Assent’, in D. Crowther, S. Shafaie, I. Glaser and S. Akhtar (eds), Reading the Bible in Islamic Context: Qur’anic Conversations (London: Routledge, 2017)

Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence (Ashgate), 2014