Ossama A. S. Abdelgawwad is an Associate Professor of Islamic Religion and Culture in the Religious Studies Department at Valparaiso University, Indiana. A Fulbright scholar, Ossama earned his MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University’s Religious Studies Department after completing his undergraduate and MA studies at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. He teaches courses in Muslim history, Christianity, topics in Abrahamic religions, and methods in religious studies.

Ossama has contributed to several publications. His work “Modifying Field Trips to a Virtual Experience” appears in A Proven Practice: Reflections on Teaching Online (Religious Studies News, AAR, 2020). He authored “The Ruse of Body Language Among Muslim Traditionists” in the Handbook on Religion and the Body (Routledge, 2023) and co-authored “Ṣubḥī Qūnyāwī” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18 (Brill, 2021). His article “An Egyptian Ethicist: Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh Drāz (1894–1958) and His Qurʾān-Based Moral Theory” is published in the American Journal of Islam and Society (2024). Additionally, his chapter “The Networks and Text Reuse in the Shāfiʿī Biographical Writings of the Mamluk Era” is set for publication in Networks Through Biography (Brepols, 2025). His forthcoming book, “Questioning Hermeneutics and Intellectual History in Medieval Islam,” will be published by Routledge in 2026.

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