
الدكتور محمد غالي
أستاذ الأخلاق الطبية والحيوية في الإسلام
أستاذ مشارك
الدكتور محمد غالي
أستاذ الأخلاق الطبية والحيوية في الإسلام
أستاذ مشارك
المؤهلات العلمية
PhD in Religious Studies
MA degree in Islamic Studies (with cum laude)
الكيان
كلية الدراسات الإسلامية
كلية العلوم الصحية والحيوية
برنامج
ماجستير الآداب في الأخلاق التطبيقية الإسلامية
القسم
مركز دراسات التشريع الإسلامي والأخلاق
الأخلاق التطبيقية الإسلامية
السيرة الذاتية
Mohammed Ghaly is Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics and Head of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar. He holds a BA from Al-Azhar University and both an MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from Leiden University, where he was a faculty member from 2007 to 2013.
Dr. Ghaly’s leadership roles include serving as founding editor-in-chief of the Scopus-indexed Journal of Islamic Ethics and as Conference Chair for the 17th World Congress of Bioethics, the first edition ever held in the Middle East. He also chaired the founding committee for the MA program in Applied Islamic Ethics at HBKU.
His research explores the critical intersection of Islamic ethics with biomedical sciences and artificial intelligence (AI). He is the author of two monographs, Islam and Disability (2009) and Islamic Ethics and Incidental Findings (2024). He has also edited several volumes on key bioethical issues such as genomics and end-of-life care ethics. His work is further disseminated through numerous peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals.
Dr. Ghaly has led several major research projects, most recently focusing on “Transforming Islamic Studies in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence.”
PhD in Religious Studies
Leiden University
2008
MA degree in Islamic Studies (with cum laude)
Leiden University
2002
BA in Islamic Studies in English
Al-Azhar University
1999
- Islamic bioethics
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics
- Islamic law
- Science and religion
- Islam in the West
Head of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE)
College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2022 – Present
Conference Chair
17th World Congress of Bioethics, International Association of Bioethics
2022 – 2024
Adjunct Professor
College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University
2019 – Present
Program Director of MA in Applied Islamic Ethics
College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2019 – 2020
Program Director of MA in Islamic Studies
College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2016 – 2017
Academic Director
Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), College of Islamic Studies, HBKU
2014 – 2021
Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics
College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2013 – Present
Faculty member (rank 2 and then rank 1)
Faculty of Religious Studies, Leiden University
2007 – 2013
Ghaly, M. (Ed.). (2022). End-of-life care, dying and death in the Islamic moral tradition. Brill.
Ghaly, M. (Ed.). (2018). Islamic ethics and the genome question. Brill.
Ghaly, M. (2016). Islamic perspectives on the principles of biomedical ethics. World Scientific Publishing (UK) Ltd. (Arabic translation published in 2020 by HBKU Press).
Ghaly, M. (2009). Islam and disability: Perspectives in theology and jurisprudence. Routledge. (Arabic translation published in 2020 by HBKU Press).
- Research Project “Transforming Islamic Studies in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): Developing AI-Empowered “IslamGPT 1.0” for Arabic Sources”, (QRDI) (2024-2027)
- Research Project: “Genomics, Islamic Ethics and Public Engagement (GIEPE): Towards Bridging the Knowledge and Communication Gaps”, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) (2018–2021)
- Research Project: “Indigenizing Genomics in the Gulf Region (IGGR): The Missing Islamic Bioethical Discourse”, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) (2015–2019)
- Research Project: “Islam and Biomedical Ethics: The Interplay of Islam and the West”, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (2012–2016)