ABOUT THE EVENT

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Celene Ibrahim, PhD
Religious Studies and Philosophy / Spiritual Life Team, Groton School
Dr. Celene Ibrahim is a multidisciplinary scholar specializing in Islamic intellectual history, gender studies, and ethics. She is best known for the monograph Women and Gender in the Qur’an   (Oxford University Press, 2020), which won the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies book award. Ibrahim is also the author of Islam and Monotheism, an accessible primer on Islamic theology (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Ibrahim is a trusted voice on Islam, interreligious relations, and religion in the public sphere for media outlets, including most recently a Netflix docudrama entitled Testament: The Story of Moses (2024).

Heather Miller Rubens, PhD
Executive Director and Roman Catholic Scholar, The Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS);
Dr. Miller Rubens is responsible for advancing the organization’s vision to build an interreligious society in which dialogue replaces division, friendship overcomes fear, and education eradicates ignorance. Some of her recent publications include: Afterword in A Sacred Argument: Dispatches from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounter (2024); “Developing Theologies of Encounter: Eva Fleischner, Fratelli Tutti, and the Unfolding Legacy of Nostra Aetate” in Pluralizing Dialogue: Insights, Actions, and Implications in Eva Fleischner’s Judaism in German Christian Theology since 1945 (2024); and “Interreligious Origin Stories: To Begin, and to Begin Again” in With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes (2023). Rubens is an experienced teacher, public speaker, facilitator, and scholar- practitioner of interreligious learning and dialogue.