Team

Overview

Mohammed Ghaly is a distinguished Professor and Research Center Head with a career defined by pioneering work at the intersection of applied Islamic ethics, global bioethics, and artificial intelligence. Expertise is grounded in over a decade of progressive leadership at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), proved by a record of building foundational academic infrastructure, including establishing the pioneering M.A. Program in Applied Islamic Ethics and serving as founding Editor-in-Chief of the Scopus-indexed Journal of Islamic Ethics (Brill), and the founding President of the International Islamic Bioethics Association (IIBA).

Influence extends to the global stage, demonstrated by chairing the 17th World Congress of Bioethics and a track record of high-impact publications in premier journals such as Science, Stem Cell Reports, Journal of Ethics, and Islamic Law and Society. Currently, leading a major grant to develop innovative AI tools for Arabic Islamic studies, actively shaping the next frontier of the field. Sought after for building bridges between diverse moral traditions and technological innovation, with the ultimate goal of forging a more just and humane digital future.

Academic Profile

Mohammed Ghaly is a professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics, and Head of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE), College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He has a B.A. in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University (Egypt) and an M.A. and PhD in the same specialization from Leiden University (the Netherlands). Between 2007 and 2013, Ghaly was a faculty member at Leiden University. 

Ghaly is the founding editor-in-chief of the Scopus-indexed Journal of Islamic Ethics (published by Brill). In September 2019, he assumed the role of founding Program Coordinator of the newly established M.A. in Applied Islamic Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He also served as the Conference Chair of the the 17th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB), the first WCB edition to be held in the Arab world and the entire Middle East.   

Islamic Ethics and its intersection with biomedical sciences and artificial intelligence (AI) represent Ghaly’s main research interests. He is the author of Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2010), and Islamic Ethics and Islamic Ethics and Incidental Findings: Genomic Morality Beyond the Secular Paradigm (Springer-Nature, 2024). He is the editor of the volumes Islamic Perspectives on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Imperial College & World Scientific, 2016), Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question (Brill, 2019), and and End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition (Brill, 2022). Ghaly is also the editor of various thematic issues, a large number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and an editorial board member of several academic journals. Additionally, Ghaly is the Lead Principal Investigator (LPI) and research consultant on a number of funded research projects, the most recent of which is on “Transforming Islamic Studies in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)”. 

Ghaly’s publications can be accessed via Google Scholar and Academia. His social media accounts include LinkedIn and X.