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 Dr. Mutaz al-Khatib is currently Associate Professor of Methodology and Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), as well as the first-of-its-kind MA program in Applied Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He is a founding member of the Journal of Islamic Ethics and the Studies in Islamic Ethics book series, where he also serves as editor-in-chief of the latter. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Damascus (1997) and in Arabic Literature from Al-Azhar University. 

Al-Khatib was a founding member of al-Multaqā al-Fikrī li-l Ibdā’ (Intellectual Forum for Innovation, 1999), and the anchor of “Al Sharia wa-l Ḥayāt” program on Al Jazeera Channel (2004 -2013). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the "Islam and Contemporary Affairs" section on IslamOnline.net (2003-2008). 

He was a visiting fellow at ZMO in Berlin (2006) and a visiting scholar at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin (2012-2013), as well as a Visiting Lecturer at the American University of Beirut, the Islamic University of Beirut, and Qatar University. He has presented lectures at various reputable academic institutions, including: University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, University of Florida, University of California, University of Tübingen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Lund University. 

He is a reviewer for a number of journals and has authored and edited several books and over 40 academic articles on Ḥadīth criticism, Islamic Ethics, Islamic intellectual history, Maqāṣid (the higher objectives of Sharia), and Islamic Law. He has also published extensively in Arabic-language newspapers and magazines.