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Dr. Mohammed Ghaly
Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics
Joint Professor
Dr. Mohammed Ghaly
Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics
Joint Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Religious Studies
MA in Islamic Studies (Cum Laude)
Entity
College of Islamic Studies
College of Health and Life Sciences
Program
Master of Arts in Applied Islamic Ethics
Division
Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE)
Applied Islamic Ethics
Biography
Dr. 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 a 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 in Islamic Studies (Cum Laude)
Leiden University
2002
BA in Islamic Studies (in English)
Al-Azhar University, Cairo
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
Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics
College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2013 – Present
Faculty Member (Rank 2 and Rank 1)
Faculty of Religious Studies, Leiden University
2007 – 2013
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
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)