Mohammed Ghaly

CILE Head

Mohammed Ghaly

Mohammed Ghaly is Head of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics at The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Doha, Qatar, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Islamic Ethics published by Brill. Dr. Ghaly specializes in the intersection of Islamic Ethics and biomedical sciences. 

In 1999, Dr. Ghaly earned a B.A. degree in Islamic Studies with cum laude from Al-Azhar University in Egypt. and went on to complete an M.A. with cum laude and PhD degree in the same specialization in 2002 and 2008 respectively from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Between 2007 and 2013, Dr. Ghaly served as a faculty member of Leiden University and since 2011 has been a faculty member of the Erasmus Mundus Program; the European Master of Bioethics jointly organized by a number of European universities. 

Dr. Ghaly was affiliated as Visiting Scholar/Researcher with a number of universities including the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, USA (academic year 2014-2015), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford (academic year 2017-2018) and School of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (academic year 2018-2019). Dr. Ghaly was invited to lecture on Islamic bioethics at many universities worldwide including Imperial College London, Oxford University, University of Oslo, University of Chicago and Georgetown University. 

Dr. Ghaly is the Lead Principal Investigator (LPI) and research consultant of a number of funded research projects. In 2012, Dr. Ghaly was awarded the prestigious VENI grant (2012-2016) from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research project "Islam and Biomedical Ethics: The Interplay of Islam and the West". In 2015, he received another prestigious grant from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) for conducting the research project "Indigenizing Genomics in the Gulf Region (IGGR): The Missing Islamic Bioethical Discourse". 

Dr. Ghaly serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals and has a strong record of peer-reviewed publications on a wide range of topics in the field of Islam and Biomedical Ethics. He is the single author of more than thirty peer-reviewed publications.

Present – 2014
CILE Head
Research Center of Islamic Legislation & Ethics, Doha
Present – 2013
Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha
2013-2007
Faculty Member (Rank 2 and then Rank 1)
Faculty of Religious Studies, Leiden University
2007-2006
Lecturer of Islamic Studies
Faculty of Religious Studies, Leiden University
2006
Study-advisor for the Islamic Theology Department
Faculty of Religious Studies, Leiden University
End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition
  • Editor
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  • Brill, 2022
End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
  • Auther
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  • Brill,2019
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics
  • Editor
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  • Imperial College & World Scientific, 2016
Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics
Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence
  • Auther
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  • Routledge, 2010
Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence