Sh Mohammed Hijab will be teaching courses in Islamic Apologetics and Contemporary Islamic Thought.
Highly recognized as an author, comparative-religionist and philosopher of religion, he is the co-founder of Sapience Institute and is a researcher and instructor for the organization. He has a BA in Politics and master’s degree in History from Queen Mary University of London. He also acquired a master’s in Islamic Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a third master’s degree in Applied Theology from the University of Oxford where he focused on the Philosophy of Religion in applied settings. He is currently doing his PhD in the Philosophy of Religion on the Contingency Argument for God’s existence.
In addition, Sh Mohammed has undergone formal training in Islamic studies, with a focus on the Qur’an, Prophetic traditions, and legal reasoning. He completed Islamic seminary courses and been given formal permission to relay Islamic knowledge on selected Islamic fields. He is one of the very few Muslim public figures who deal comparatively with political, philosophical and theological issues and as such has amassed a following of many subscribers on YouTube in English and Arabic.