Hawzah News Agency- "A Sacred Covenant: Essays on Family Ethics in Islam and Christianity" was released in Canada in October 2026, providing a platform for scholarly collaboration between Muslim and Christian women in the field of family ethics and interfaith dialogue.
A notable feature of the work is the formation of a scholarly circle comprising seven women researchers from different religious and cultural backgrounds, examining topics such as the status of women, motherhood, marriage, chastity, child-rearing, and the challenges of the contemporary family from Islamic and Christian perspectives. In addition to writing the essays, the authors exchanged views on these topics at a scholarly conference.
Contributors to the book include Jacinta Vigas, a Catholic theologian and professor at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome; Elena Sergin Rogatina, a professor at the Kazan Orthodox Seminary in Russia; Maria Stajić, a Serbian researcher of Orthodox Christianity; and Iranian researchers Narjes Rudgar, Seyedeh Fatemeh Ahmadi, Maryam Sahhaf, and Razieh Shameli, specialists in Islamic studies and family studies.
The work was compiled and published as a follow-up to the Second International Conference on Comparative Studies of Ethics in Islam and Christianity, centered on the Research Institute for Islamic Sciences and Culture. The inclusion of the logos of Italy's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Russia's Kazan Orthodox Seminary, Moscow's Ibn Sina Institute, and the Institute for Islamic-Christian Dialogue alongside that of the Research Institute for Islamic Sciences and Culture on the book's back cover reflects the international scholarly collaboration behind the publication.
Upon release, "A Sacred Covenant" was made available for purchase or order at a number of reputable international retailers, including Amazon and Walmart in the US, ThriftBooks, Australia's Readings bookstore, Switzerland's Orell Füssli, and Italy's IBS.
The book's publication is significant in that Muslim and Christian women in this collaboration have presented their views on shared family issues not merely as subjects of religious study but as researchers and actors in interfaith dialogue—an effort to draw on the capacities of both religious traditions in addressing contemporary family challenges.
"A Sacred Covenant: Essays on Family Ethics in Islam and Christianity" was published in English in Canada with ISBN 9781778990632.
Interested readers can view and order the book through Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Covenant-Essays-Family-Christianity/dp/1778990630
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