A COUPLE of days ago, I went to Cambridge University to hear the inaugural lecture by the freshly appointed holder of an important new post: a chair in the study of the Abrahamic faiths (in other words, of the history and inter-relationship of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) endowed by Sultan Qaboos of Oman.
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