Mohammed Hijab

About Mohammed Hijab

Mohammed Hijab (born October 5, 1991) is a British Muslim scholar, apologist, and YouTuber of Egyptian descent, raised in London. He holds a BA in Politics from Queen Mary University of London, a BA in Arabic and Islamic Sciences from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, an MA in Islamic Studies from SOAS University of London, an MA in History from Queen Mary University, and an MTh in Applied Theology from the University of Oxford. As of 2026 he is pursuing a PhD in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is a co-founder of the Sapience Institute, an organization dedicated to Muslim intellectual engagement with philosophy and comparative religion, where he works as a researcher and instructor.

Theological Position and Beliefs

Hijab operates from a Sunni Islamic theological framework and is particularly committed to the doctrine of Tawhid (the absolute oneness of God). A central focus of his work is demonstrating the rational and scriptural case for Islamic monotheism against Trinitarian Christian theology. He draws on classical Islamic kalam (theological argumentation) as well as Western analytic philosophy of religion. He holds that the Bible, as currently constituted, has been textually corrupted from its original divine revelation, and that authentic Christian scripture would have pointed toward monotheism consistent with the Islamic understanding of Jesus as a prophet rather than a divine being.

Approach to Interfaith Dialogue and Apologetics

Hijab is known for a confrontational but intellectually engaged debate style. He has participated in formal debates and street-level dialogues at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, London, and has conducted formal debates with prominent Christian apologists including David Wood, James White, and William Lane Craig. He has also engaged figures outside religious apologetics, including conversations with Noam Chomsky (2021), Jordan Peterson (2021 and 2022), and Andrew Tate following his conversion to Islam (2022). His approach combines philosophical argumentation (cosmological arguments, the argument from consciousness) with critical textual analysis of the New Testament aimed at undermining Trinitarian proof-texts.

Engagement with the Bible

Hijab engages biblical texts primarily as a critical interlocutor. His most frequently discussed passages include John 17:3 (which he reads as Jesus explicitly denying his own divinity), Isaiah 9:6, Genesis 1:1 and 1:26 (disputed plural language), and Mark 13:32 (Jesus's stated ignorance of the Last Day). He draws extensively on historical-critical scholarship to argue that the Trinitarian doctrine was a later ecclesiastical development inconsistent with the earliest stratum of Christian teaching. His OT and NT reference counts are roughly equal, reflecting his interest in showing both that the Hebrew Bible does not support Trinitarian Christianity and that the NT Gospels themselves contain subordinationist Christological statements.

Content on the Channel

The 461-video archive is varied in format: formal structured debates, street evangelism encounters filmed at Speaker's Corner, podcast-style discussions, reaction videos, and direct-to-camera lectures on Islamic theology and Western philosophy. The channel also includes content in Arabic, reflecting his multilingual scholarly background. Notable recurring debate opponents include David Wood, with whom he has conducted multiple full-length formal debates on the Trinity versus Tawhid. The channel has accumulated over 1.3 million subscribers.

Target Audience

The channel serves Muslim audiences seeking intellectual confidence in their faith, as well as non-Muslim viewers interested in Islamic arguments against Christianity or broader philosophy of religion discussions. It also attracts Christian apologists and theologians who engage Hijab's arguments as part of their own preparation for interfaith dialogue. Non-religious viewers drawn by Hijab's debates with public intellectuals like Peterson and Chomsky form a secondary audience. The channel is not primarily devotional in character; it is apologetic and polemical in orientation.

Broader Context

Hijab represents a generation of Western-educated Muslim intellectuals who engage Christianity and secular philosophy in their own languages and frameworks. Unlike earlier generations of Muslim apologetics that relied primarily on classical Arabic sources, Hijab's approach integrates analytic philosophy of religion with Islamic theology, making his arguments accessible to Western secular and Christian audiences. His Sapience Institute co-founders include Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, another prominent British Muslim intellectual.