Held in collaboration with the University of Leuven, CILE held it’s 2021 Winter School program on maṣlaḥa, a concept which has previously been explored by the center on various occasions and which serves as part of CILE’s broader and long-term interest in examining key concepts in the Islamic tradition and how they could/should contribute to the moral discourse on a wide range of issues concerned with ethical dilemmas. Earlier efforts include 2015, CILE published a short interview with Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud on “The Concept of Maslaha and its Ethical Implications” published by CILE in 2015; an Internal Seminar on “Ethics & the Concept of Maslaha (Benefit/Interest): Towards a Comprehensive, Consistent, and Implementable Theory” in November 2017; and a public lecture entitled “What’s Maslaha? Who Decides?” on 19 November 2017. In the same vein, CILE developed the theme of the moral significance of the concept of maqāṣid in the 2017 CILE Summer School.