Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour Muslim Visiting Local Faith Leader
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Contact details
Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour mga62@bath.ac.uk
Role
Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour memorized the Qur’ān at the age of eleven and received his primary, secondary, and undergraduate education at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, graduating as valedictorian of his class with a bachelor’s in Islamic Studies and philosophy. He then completed his MA in Catholic Theology at the University of Durham, U.K. and his PhD at SOAS University of London, examining questions of truth and salvation between Catholic Christianity and Sunni Islam. He is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford.
Career
His PhD thesis was examined and generously reviewed by Revd. Dr Rowan Williams (former archbishop of Canterbury) and it is now published as a book with Brill Publishers, entitled: A Comparative History of Catholic and Ash‘arī Theologies of Truth and Salvation (2021). He is also the author of The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2022). In tandem with his academic work, he is also the Imam of Bath Mosque. His next monograph is a contemporary Muslim commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Routledge.