Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue

Author Biographies

• Georgina L Jardim, The Centre for Muslim–Christian Studies, Oxford

  Georgina Jardim is a lecturer in World Religions at the University of Gloucestershire UK. Her research interests include inter-faith relations and scriptural reasoning, including the practical creation of spaces for these interests. She has published on female characterization in scripture, and inter-faith relations at points of 19th century exploration in Africa and during the anti-Apartheid struggle.

• Rana Abu-Mounes, The Centre for Muslim–Christian Studies, Oxford

  Rana Abu-Mounes is a scholar of Muslim-Christian relations, with a particular focus on the 19th-century Ottoman Levant. She was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Muslim and Christian Studies (CMCS), Oxford, from 2020 to 2024, and continues her affiliation with the Centre as a Research Associate. She holds an MLitt and a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, where her doctoral research led to the publication of Muslim-Christian Relations in Damascus amid the 1860 Riot (Brill, 2022). Her current research examines interfaith responses to environmental challenges in the Levant, with particular attention to Muslim-Christian engagement with the water crisis in Jordan.