Projects of the Imams and Rabbis Council of the United Kingdom

The Imams and Rabbis Council of the United Kingdom is made up only of ordained and qualified rabbis and imams, and Jewish and Muslim academics from across the religious spectrum (Orthodox and Progressive Jewish, Sunni and Shi'a Muslim), and it convenes two official Councils each year in the UK Parliament and academic institutions to discuss matters affecting Jewish and Muslim communities, religious and social issues, together with guest parliamentarians and dignitaries more ...

The major project of the Imams and Rabbis Council is in the field of international security and building peace between Jewish and Muslim communities. In March and May 2012, the Vice Chair, Sheikh Professor Mohamed Elsharkawy is leader to the Christian Muslim Council in Cairo and Hamburg, on issues of religious freedom and persecution, while in May 2012, both the Chair, Rabbi Reuben Livingstone and the Vice Chair lead an international conference in Washington, DC on "Religion and Violence" for senior United States military and security personnel. The unique expertise of this partnership between scholarship of sacred texts and security, both rabbinic and imamate, is unique in the world more ...

The Imams and Rabbis Council is a member of the Scriptures in Dialogue Academic Collaboration of Jewish, Islamic and Christian theological colleges and academic bodies, and works closely with its sister charities, Scriptural Reasoning and the Christian Muslim Council. In the autumn of 2012 there will be held a major conference at Oak Hill Theological College on the theme of faith and law in the interpretation of sacred scriptures more ...