Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour is a lecturer at Al-Azhar University, Cairo and a lecturer at the University of York. He moved to the city of Bath in 2017 to provide religious instruction for Bath Islamic Society and design programmes of Islamic education and interfaith dialogue. Gamal memorized the Qur’an at the age of 11 and was then trained in Islamic studies and philosophy at the universities of Al-Azhar, Durham and SOAS University of London. He graduated as valedictorian of his class with a bachelor’s in Islamic studies and philosophy in 2011 (Al-Azhar University, Cairo,) and completed his MA in theology and religion at the University of Durham, U.K (2014). Gamal then did a PhD at SOAS University of London in comparative religion, under the supervision of the Qur’an translator, Prof. Muhammad Abdel Haleem, and his PhD thesis was examined at the University of Cambridge, by the former archbishop of Canterbury, Revd. Dr. Rowan Williams (2019). Gamal is an author of two books: The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2022) and A Comparative History of Catholic and Ash’ari Theologies of Truth and Salvation (Brill Publishers, 2021).

How to contact? The quickest and best way via email, on: (mohammedgamal@alazhar.edu.eg)