Day Conference: Christianity in Iraq X – 11 May 2013

Mysticism in the Iraqi Church: Forging New Boundaries

  • Dr. Grigory Kessel (Marburg) – “God speaks to you through reading”. A Syriac monk’s library
  • Miss Nadira Khayyat (Baghdad and Paris) – The Syriac Mystics of the 7th and 8th centuries
  • Miss Jennifer Griggs (SOAS) – Divine Love as Revelation in Gregory bar Hebraeus
  • Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford) – Crossing Boundaries: St. Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian) and his Boundaries
  • Dr. Anthony O’Mahony (Heythrop) – Louis Massignon on Mysticism Christian and Muslim

Conference fee up to £32 Apply online, or further details from Dr Erica Hunter, at the Centre for Eastern & Orthodox Christianity at the School for Oriental and African Studies