Held in collaboration between the College of Public Policy (CPP) and the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU).

The field of governance, both in policy and in administration, encompasses various sciences and traditions to address the demands and challenges of human social structure. However, current international standards in this area are largely defined by the dominant Western paradigm at the exclusion of all other religious and cultural traditions.

This project will seek to uncover the perspectives of these otherwise underrepresented and underexplored institutions that craft, coordinate, and deliver public services for and with their constituents for a better life, based on their localized Islamic tradition. In doing so, the project hopes to work toward answering a few “big questions” namely:

• What is an Islamic society and what does it mean for it to flourish?
• Where and when does Islamic governance and administration play a role?
• How is public value defined and understood in a non-Western, Islamic context?
• How can non-Muslims benefit from Islamic governance institutions?

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