Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour

Profile

Dr Gamal is a lecturer of Islamic theology and philosophy at the Faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn, Al-Azhar University (Cairo) and an honorary visiting fellow at the Department of philosophy, University of York, UK Gamal received his primary, secondary and undergraduate education at Al-Azhar, where he gained the title of a ḥāfiẓ of the Quran, deeply studied the various disciplines of the Arabic and Islamic tradition, and graduated as valedictorian of his class with a bachelor’s in Islamic Studies and Philosophy in 2011 (Al-Azhar University, Cairo).

He holds an MA in Catholic Theology (Durham University, UK) and a PhD in Comparative Theology (SOAS University of London). He is the author of A Comparative History of Catholic and Ashʿarī Theologies of Truth and Salvation: Inclusive Minorities, Exclusive Majorities (Brill, 2021) and The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology: Towards a Theory of Maqāṣid al-ʿAqā’id (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Research

He is currently working on a monograph dealing with the possibility of reading the Quran as a piece of philosophy, as opposed to being read as a piece of revelation alone.

External activity

Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour is part of a number of external groups, including:

• Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, University of Oxford
• Trustee at GINGKO for promoting dialogue with Middle East and North Africa
• Honorary research fellow, University of Bristol
• International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues, University of Bonn