Monks, Magi and Mosques: Religion Along the Silk Road, Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2017-03-20

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This lecture titled "Monks, Magi and Mosques: Religion Along the Silk Road" by Bishop Michael Nazir Ali was given to coincide with the exhibition Embroidered Tales and Woven Dreams at the Brunei Gallery SOAS on 6 February 2017.

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Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is the President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue (OXTRAD). He was Bishop of Rochester from 1994- 2009. He was the General Secretary of the Church Mission Society (CMS). He was the Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan, where he has both a Christian and a Muslim family background. From 1999, Bishop Michael was a member of the House of Lords where he was active in a number of areas of national and international concerns. Between 1997 and 2003, he was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and chair of its Ethics and Law Committee and was also the chair of the Rochester Commission on woman bishops. He was also President of the Network for Interfaith Relations (NIFCON) of the Anglican Communion. He has studied, researched and taught at a number of colleges and universities, in Karachi, Oxford and Cambridge.

He is the author of several books. His latest book is Faith, Freedom and the Future; Challenges for the 21st Century (2016).