CILE’s initiative is maintained by the production, dissemination and application of Islamic ethical thought and behavior.

Launched in January 2012, CILE specializes in Islamic Legislation and Ethics with a focus on applied ethics in the fields of: methodology, arts, environment, economics, education, food, gender, media, bioethics, migration and human rights, politics, and psychology.

CILE has developed the following methodological approaches to guide its work:

• Reconciling spirituality and science, legislation and ethics, laws and objectives and emphasizing their complimentary relationship.
•  A broad and positive view of the Islamic sources of legislation and ethics.
•  A practical spirit that transforms the science of Maqasid al-Sharia (higher objectives of Islam) from theory to practice in all spheres of life, contributing to the establishment of an Islamic legislative and ethical framework.
• A trans-disciplinary assessment of contemporary legal and ethical challenges.
• A holistic approach whereby scholars of the text from diverse Islamic traditions and scholars of the context from various natural and human sciences engage in an intellectual exercise.
• Critical self-assessment and reasoning that goes beyond short-term crisis management in favor of creative, long-term transformative solutions to world problems.

CILE also launched its publication activities in the three languages; Arabic, English and French with the series of “Islam and Applied Ethics” with the HBKU Press, online international peer-reviewed“ Journal of Islamic Ethics” with Brill based in Leiden in The Netherlands, with Tawhid for publishing in French language and a with Al -Shabaka to publish in Arabic language.