We wish to express our particular gratitude to the His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, for convening the conference in partnership with the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Foundation, and for hosting us at Lambeth Palace. We are grateful too for the extraordinarily generous hospitality offered by the Colleges and University of Cambridge. We are especially appreciative of Emmanuel College's hosting our opening lectures and dinner, Jesus College for offering facilities for our plenary and group discussions and providing meals, Clare College for dinner and fine music, as well as the great number of students and staff of the Colleges who never tired of offering cheerful assistance.

We are conscious that our meeting represented the most significant gathering of international Muslim leaders ever to take place in the United Kingdom, matched by a similarly wide diversity of traditions and geographical backgrounds amongst the Christian participants. We were greatly stimulated by the opening addresses to the conference by the Archbishop and His Excellency Dr Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, and the responses to their addresses by His Eminence Dr Mustafa Cerić, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia Herzegovina and His Beatitude Gregorios III, Melkite Greek-Catholic Patriarch of Antioch & All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem.

We live in an increasingly global world that brings with it increased interdependence. The closer we are drawn together by this globalisation and interdependence, the more urgent is the need to understand and respect one another in order to find a way out of our troubles. Meeting at a time of great turbulence in the world financial system our hearts go out to the many people throughout the world whose lives and livelihood are affected by the current crisis. When a crisis of this magnitude occurs, we are all tempted to think solely of ourselves and our families and ignore the treatment of minorities and the less fortunate. In this conference we are celebrating the shared values of love of God and love of neighbour, the basis of A Common Word, whilst reflecting self-critically on how often we fall short of these standards. We believe that the divine commandment to love our neighbour should prompt all people to act with compassion towards others, to fulfil their duty of helping to alleviate misery and hardship. It is out of an understanding of shared values that we urge world leaders and our faithful everywhere to act together to ensure that the burden of this financial crisis, and also the global environmental crisis, does not fall unevenly on the weak and the poor. We must seize the opportunity for implementing a more equitable global economic system that also respects our role as stewards of the earth's resources.

Our gathering was timed to coincide with the first anniversary of A Common Word Between Us and You. We unanimously welcomed this letter from Muslim leaders and scholars and the Archbishop's letter A Common Word for the Common Good, noting both their historic, ground-breaking nature and the collegial processes from which they issued. The generous spirit that characterises both letters allowed us, carefully and honestly, to begin exploring areas of potential agreement as well as some of the difficult issues which have sometimes become the focus for misunderstanding and hostility. We discussed our understanding of scripture, shared moral values, respect for foundational figures, religious freedom and religiously motivated violence.

As we were meeting together, we were deeply troubled to learn of the situation in Mosul (Iraq) where threats to the Christian community have further added to the tragic Iraqi refugee situation. These threats undermine the centuries-old tradition of local Muslims protecting and nourishing the Christian community, and must stop. We are profoundly conscious of the terrible suffering endured by Iraqi people of every creed in recent years and wish to express our solidarity with them. We find no justification in Islam or Christianity for those promoting the insecurity or perpetrating the violence evident in parts of Iraq. We call upon the religious, political and community leaders to do all in their power to promote the return of all persons and communities, including the ancient Christian communities, and ensure a stable environment in which all citizens can flourish. We unequivocally declare that, in Iraq as anywhere else in the world, no person or community should be persecuted or threatened on account of their religious faith. We must all have a particular concern for religious minorities in our midst. We pray that Iraq may find peace and that our two religions may work together to overcome divisions in society, demonstrating faithfulness to the dual commandment to love God and love neighbour.

One of the most moving elements of our encounter has been the opportunity to study together passages from our scriptures. We have felt ourselves to have been together before God and this has given us each a greater appreciation for the richness of the other's heritage as well as an awareness of the potential value in being joined by Jewish believers in a journey of mutual discovery and attentiveness to the texts we hold sacred. We wish to repeat the experience of a shared study of scriptural texts as one of the ways in which we can come, concretely, to develop our understanding of how the other understands and lives their own faith. We commend this experience to others.

Looking towards the future, mindful of the crucial importance of education and inspired by our presence in a great seat of learning, we have also been keen to identify specific ways in which our encounter might be broadened and deepened. We have, therefore, committed ourselves to the following over the coming year:

· To identify and promote the use of educational materials, for all age-groups and in the widest possible range of languages, that we accept as providing a fair reflection of our faiths

· To build a network of academic institutions, linking scholars, students and academic resources, with various committees and teams which can work on shared values

· To identify funds to facilitate exchanges between those training for roles of leadership within our religious communities

· To translate significant texts from our two traditions for the use of the other.

As we prepare to return, each to our own countries and contexts, we resolve to act on the oft-repeated desire to find the means of ensuring that the two letters we have discussed and the wonderful fruits of our time together are spread amongst our co-religionists; that the spirit of collaboration, mutual respect and desire for greater understanding may be the mark of our relationship for the benefit of all humankind.

To God be the glory for that which has been achieved in these days together, and may God guide us in the right path as we carry forward the work begun.

Participants List - Muslims

H.E. Shaykh Prof. Dr Ali Gomaa Mohamed Abdel Wahab

- Grand Mufti - Republic of Egypt

Prof. Dr. Allamah Shaykh 'Mohammad Said' Ramadan Malla Al-Buti

- Dean, Department of Religion - University of Damascus

H.E. Prof. Dr Allamah Shaykh Abdallahi Ould Cheikh El Mahfoudh Ould Boye

- Professor, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia

- Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars

- Founder and President, Global Center for Renewal and Guidance

Shaykh Al-Habib Omar bin Mohammed bin Salem Ban Hafedh

- Dean, Dar Al-Mustafa, Tarim

H.E. Shaykh Prof. Dr Mustafa Cerić

- Grand Mufti

- Head of Ulema of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Prof. Dr H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal

- Personal Envoy and Special Advisor of H.M. King Abdullah II

- Chairman of the Board, Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought

Prof. Dr Ingrid Mattson

- Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations

- Director, Islamic Chaplaincy Program, Hartford Seminary

- President, Islamic Society of North America

Shaykh Al-Habib Ali Zain Al-Abidin Al-Jifri

- Founder and Director, Taba Institute, United Arab Emirates

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad Winter

- Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge

- Director of the Muslim Academic Trust, UK

Prof. Dr. Aref Ali Nayed

- Former Professor, Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome

- Former Professor, International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization, Malaysia

- Senior Advisor, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

Shaykh Amr Mohamed Helmy Khaled

- Islamic Missionary, Preacher and Broadcaster

- Founder and Chairman, Right Start Foundation International

Ayatollah Prof. Dr Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Ahmad Abadi Damad

- Dean of Department of Islamic Studies, The Academy of Science of Iran

- Professor of Law and Islamic Philosophy, Tehran University

- Fellow, The Iranian Academy of Sciences

H.E. Dr. Abdulaziz Otham Al-Twaijri

- Director-General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Prof. Dr Abderrahmane Taha

- President, Wisdom Circle for Thinkers and Researchers

- Director, Al-Umma Al-Wasat Magazine

- International Union of Muslim Scholars

Dr Muhammad Suheyl Umar

- Director, Iqbal Academy, Lahore

Mr Sohail Nakhooda

- Editor-in-Chief, Islamica Magazine

Mr Fuad Nahdi

- President, Radical Middle Way

- Specialist member, Christian-Muslim Forum, UK

Participants List - Christians

The Most Revd & Rt Hon Dr Rowan Williams

- Archbishop of Canterbury

His Beatitude Gregorios III Laham

- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch & All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem

Metropolitan Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim

- Metropolitan, Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo

The Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali

- Bishop of Rochester, Church of England

- Co-President of the Anglican Communion's Network for Inter Faith Concerns

The Rt Revd David Hamid

- Bishop in Europe, Church of England

The Rt Revd Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon

- Bishop of Kaduna, Nigeria

- Co-President of the Anglican Communion's Network for Inter Faith Concerns

- President of the Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa

Professor Iain Torrance

- President, Princeton Theological Seminary

Professor Frances Young

- Professor Emeritus, Formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor University of Birmingham

Professor David Ford

- Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

- Director, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

Professor Miroslav Volf

- Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School

- Director, Yale Center for Faith and Culture

Prof Oddbjørn Leirvik

- Professor of Interreligious Studies, University of Oslo

Prof. Fr Emmanuel Clapsis

- Professor Ordinarius, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, USA

- Ecumenical Patriarch

Abbot Timothy Wright OSB

- Advisor on Inter Religious Affairs to the Abbot Primate of the Order of St Benedict

The Revd Prof. Christian W. Troll SJ

- Honorary Professor, Kolleg St Georgen, Germany

The Revd Dr Daniel Madigan SJ

- Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University

Dr Nicholas Adams

- Academic Director, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme

Revd Dr Mindawati Perangin-angin

- Head of the Ecumenical Bureau of the Karo Batah Protestant Church of Indonesia

Pfrin. Susanna Faust

- Representative for Interreligious Dialogue, Ecumenical Center,

- Evangelical Church of Germany

Revd Canon Anthony Ball

- Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for International and Inter-Religious Relations