Podcast
Episode 7 | Theologies of Salvation
In this episode we talk with Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour about the concept of salvation within academic and societal discourses. We begin from his monograph entitled: A Comparative History of Catholic and Ašʿarī Theologies of Truth and Salvation: Inclusive Minorities, Exclusive Majorities, to explore why the idea of salvation is essential to every religion, what is the relationship between salvation and truth, and what can theological ideas of Salvation reveal about our contemporary political moment.
Ghilad H. Shenhav
Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour is a lecturer of Islamic theology and philosophy at the Faculty of Uṣūl al-Dīn, Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Musim-Christian Studies in the UK. Gamal received his primary, secondary and undergraduate education at Al-Azhar, where he gained the title of a ḥāfiẓ of the Quran. He 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).