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In line with its mission to frame debates on Islam in a global context, the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at
Summer School 2020
Islamic Ethics and the Covid-19 Pandemic
9-12 August 2020
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CILE Journal of Islamic Ethics: Volume 3 is out
#CILE2015: The Participants
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Debates on the subject of ijtihad have been continuous among reformers in Egypt, Syria and Tunisia since in the end of the nineteenth century.
Watch the Promotional Video of CILE Second Annual International Conference, and discover the discussion panels. This big event will explore “ Ethics in a Changing World: Contemporary Perspectives”. The Conference will be held in Georgetown University in Qatar on March 15th -16th . If you live in Qatar, please join us in the conference room, if you live outside Qatar, you can still attend the conference via live streaming on: www.cilecenter.org
CILE International Conference on Al Resalah TV: broadcasting schedules
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[Update] Register now for CILE Granada Summer School June 2015
Would you like to participate in the CILE next Summer School in Granada, June 2015?
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Call for Registration: CILE Granada Summer School 2016
The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) is pleased to invite you to its upcoming Summer School in Granada, Spain, from 16th to 20th May, 2016.
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[Call for Papers] Islamic Psychology: Defining a Discipline
Submissions should be sent to:
Dr. Carrie York Al-Karam
The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) a member of Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies in Hamad Bin Khali
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Journal of Islamic Ethics (JIE)
The Doha-based Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) is pleased to invite scholars, academics and researchers to submit their research papers to a closed three-day seminar on “I
New CILE Publication*
Activities
[New Date: 6 December 2020]
9-12 August 2020, in collaboration with Leuven Centre for the Study of Islam Culture and Society.
9-12 August 2020, in collaboration with Leuven Centre for the Study of Islam Culture and Society.
Feminist studies have recently shifted the focus from women rights and their position in society to the role of women in producing religious knowledge.
Ethics and Maqasid
15-19 May 2017
Join us at the auditorium of the College of Islamic Studies, HBKU
3rd - 5th April 2017
27-29 September 2016
The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) held a seminar entitled "Islamic Ethics and Psychology" over three days from Saturday 22nd to Monday 24th November 2014 at Qatar Facult
CILE held a seminar on “Politics and Ethics” 8-10 June, 2013 at its headquarters. The participants focused on two questions:
o What is a civil state with Islamic reference?
Videos
In this lecture, Dr. Al Khatib talked about ethics, values and principles to be considered when responding to a pandemic. The presentation was based on three important questions:
CILE Summer School Granada 2014
Day 3 on Migration and Human Rights, Session 3
Dr. Zahra R. Babar, Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar
Articles & Essays
Mulki Al-Sharmani*
Rabia Malik*
Philip Molyneux*
Fethi B Jomaa Ahmed*
Tamim Mobayed *
Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror, released on Monday 5 November 2014, is the most recent report to highlight the repercussions of the post 9/11 U.S. government policy within the field of medical ethics.
Human Genetics and its Applications
A Comparative Juristic Study
Indeed, We have sent Our messengers with clear signs, and sent down with them the Scripture and the Balance that people may administer in justice. And We sent down iron, wherein is great strength and benefits for mankind, that God may distinguish those who support Him, though unseen, and His…
First baby born by womb transplantation: "it is a sisterhood thing"
There are those who, from childhood, are inclined to exhibit generosity, honesty, and patience while others seem inclined towards the opposite.
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The last three hundred years of Muslim history has witnessed the gap between law and ethics widen. Throughout various intervals in history, the discipline of law lost its connection with the ethical paradigm of Islam. The Islamic faith has been reduced to a legal barometer, a code of halal and …
First baby born by womb transplantation: "it is a sisterhood thing"
There are those who, from childhood, are inclined to exhibit generosity, honesty, and patience while others seem inclined towards the opposite.
Regular and frequent consumption of meat has become a staple of food culture. In Western and also in Arab countries traditional dishes mostly contain meat or dairy products. Its consumption is a regular feature of food culture and it would be almost impossible for many to imagine a life without it.
Islamism—or “political Islam”—is not dead. Those who have proclaimed its demise, or trumpeted the advent of a “post-Islamist” era, are wrong, as events in Africa, the Middle East and Asia clearly show. Islamism is not about to disappear, or even to fundamentally mutate. My thesis—my ideological…
God has created Man and settled him on earth and put the earth at his service. God has also sent Messengers with divine laws to guide Man to achieve the purpose of his/her creation, namely, to be God’s vicegerent on earth.
It would not be an exaggeration to claim that today Islamic spirituality has become the monopoly of the Sufis and faith-based civic engagement is more or less the exclusive domain of the Islamists.
Despite the fact that Islam remains a powerful social force in the lives of the majority of its adherents, contemporary scholars lament the silence of Muslims on the environmental crisis. However, close scrutiny reveals a burgeoning ‘green’ movement amongst Muslims the world over. While scholarly…
“Sexes’ being anatomically and physiologically different is a natural fact; from observation of their differences are drawn abstract notions of which the prototype is the opposition identical/different, on which are shaped so many other conceptual oppositions used in our discourse of all sorts.[1…
