I’ve just got online at my new office, at St Stephen’s House, where we will be opening our new Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.  We’ll be an independent, Christian-based, research centre, cooperating with various people and colleges in and near Oxford.  We hope to facilitate all sorts of people – Christian, Muslims, people of other faiths and none – in study of the Muslim-Christian interface.

My new study is small and temporary.  We’re still jumping through administrative and legal hoops before moving into more permanent premises.  We plan to start properly, in the new place, by the beginning of next academic year.  Meanwhile, we will be starting quietly in May, with weekly research-in-progress seminars at which staff and anyone else interested can test out their latest thinking.