A Muslim Scholar Yomna Helmy, Member of the Advisory Board of the International Interfaith Reading Group will open the Oxford Interfaith Forum in 2022 with a session on Comparative Reading of Psalms and Abrahams’ Prayers in the Quran.
Date: Wed, 12 January, 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 GMT
Speaker: Ustadha Yomna Helmy, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
Chair: Gulamabbas Lakha, Tutor in Psychology of Religion, University of Oxford
Venue: Online

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