Our Team

Dr. Mohammed Ghaly is professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. He has a B.A. degree in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University (Egypt) and M.A. and PhD degrees in the sae specialization from Leiden University (the Netherlands). During the period 2013-2007, Ghaly was a faculty member at Leiden University.

The intersection of Islamic Ethics and biomedical sciences is Ghaly’s main specialization. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Islamic Ethics (published by Brill). Since 2011, Ghaly has been a faculty member at the Erasmus Mundus Program; the European Master of Bioethics, jointly organized by a number of European universities. Ghaly lectured on Islamic (bio)ethics at many universities worldwide including Imperial College London, Oxford University, University of Oslo, University of Chicago and Georgetown University.

Ghaly was affiliated as Visiting Scholar/Researcher with a number of universities including the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, USA (academic year 2015- 2014), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford (academic  year  2018-2017)  and  School  of  Philosophy  at  the  Erasmus  University Rotterdam (academic year 2019-2018).

Besides his book Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2010) and  the edited volumes Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Imperial College & World Scientific, 2016) and Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question (Brill, 2019), Ghaly is the single author of more than thirty peer- reviewed publications and serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals. He is also the Lead Principal Investigator (LPI) and research consultant of a number of funded research projects. His publications can be accessed via https://cilecenter.academia.edu/MohammedGhaly

Dr. Mutaz Al Khatib is Associate Professor of Islamic Moral Philosophy, and the coordinator of the MA Program in Applied Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) and the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE). He was a visiting fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orien (ZMO) in Berlin (2006), and a visiting scholar at the Forum Transregional Studien, Berlin (2013-2012). Al-Khatib was a visiting lecturer at the American University of Beirut, the Islamic University of Beirut, and Qatar University. He has delivered lectures and participated in conferences at Oxford University, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Florida University, Berkeley School of Law, Tubingen University, University of Ludwig-Maximilians, Osnabruck University, and other universities worldwide. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Islamic Ethics and the book series Studies in Islamic Ethics both published by Brill. He is Principal Investigator (PI) of a large-scale project on genomics and Islamic ethics funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Al Khatib is the author of The Textual Critical Approach to Ḥadīth: a Study of the Methods of Traditionalists and Jurists (Beirut: Arab Network for Studies and Publishing, 2011), and The Justified Violence: Shari’a versus the People and the State (Cairo: Dar Almashriq, 2017). He also edited several books and published over 30 academic articles in Arabic and English, some published by Brill and Oxford.

Dr. Ray Jureidini is Professor of Migration Ethics and Human Rights at the MA Program in Applied Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) and the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE). In the 1990s, he co-founded and served as Vice Chairman of the Australian Arabic Council established to counter anti-Arab racism in Australia. He was also the founder and Editor of the Journal of Arabic, Islamic, and Middle East Studies. After teaching sociology at five universities in Australia, he spent six years at the American University of Beirut, where he began researching and publishing on abuses of the human rights of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. At the American University in Cairo, he became Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies and conducted a number of research projects on migrant and refugee issues. Between 2011 and 2014, he returned to Lebanon and worked at the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University. In 2012, he served for one year as a consultant to the Migrant Worker Welfare Initiative at Qatar Foundation (QF), contributing to the QF Standards for Migrant Worker Welfare for contractors and sub-contractors and completing a report on labor recruitment into Qatar.

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Dr. Samer Rashwani is a scholar of Quranic studies and Islamic intellectual history. His teaching and research concentrate on the trajectories of the Islamic scholarship on the Quran from the early centuries of Islam on, and investigate new hermeneutical approaches to the Quran. He was a lecturer at the faculty of Sharia (Universities of Damascus and Aleppo), 2007-2011, and a EUME (Forum Transregionale Studien) fellow in Berlin 2011-2013. He is since 2013 a post-doc at the center of Islamic theology, University of Tübingen.