Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour is a lecturer of Islamic theology and philosophy at the Faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn, al-AzharA major mosque and institution of learning founded in Cairo by the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Muʿizz (d. 975). University (Cairo) and an honorary visiting fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of York. Gamal received his primary, secondary, and undergraduate education at Al-Azhar, where he gained the qualification as ḥāfiẓ of the Qurʾan. He studied deeply the various disciplines of the Arabic and Islamic tradition and graduated as valedictorian of his class with a BA in Islamic Studies and Philosophy in 2011. He holds an MA in Catholic Theology (Durham University) and a PhD in Comparative Theology (SOAS, University of London). He is the author of  A Comparative History of Catholic and Aš‘arī 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).