Lecture and discussion with Prof Dr Zishan Ghaffar and Sarah Lebock

Comparative theology pursues the goal of delving deeper into another tradition from one's own theological starting point in order to learn for one's own theologising with regard to very specific questions. The lecture is intended to give an insight into the discipline and its challenges. Where can comparative theology make sustainable social contributions to interreligious dialogue in society? How, for example, can Quranic theological contributions be identified for Muslim approaches?

About the people

Prof Dr Zishan Ghaffar is Professor of Quranic exegesis at the Paderborn Institute for Islamic Theology (PIIT). He is also Chairman of the Centre for Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies (ZeKK) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Paderborn University and head of a cross-university project on the transfer of comparative theology into society ("Forum for Comparative Theology"). His research focuses on the field of classical Quranic exegesis (tafsīr) and historical-critical Quranic exegesis, Quranic theology, the historical Muhammad, the genesis and early history of Islam, Syriac Christianity and comparative theology.

Sarah Lebock is a research associate at PIIT and managing director of ZeKK. She is also the coordinator of the "Forum for Comparative Theology" project, which aims to make sustainable social contributions to interreligious dialogue and social cohesion. With her doctoral project "Understanding(d) learning", she is pursuing the goal of reflecting methodologically on the dialogue-based attempts at understanding in comparative theology using philosophical approaches and addressing central challenges. In doing so, she is also trying to make possible Koranic hermeneutical approaches conceivable.

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