Held in collaboration with the College of Health Sciences at Qatar University and the Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) at McGill University, CILE’s winter school invited speakers from a range of different backgrounds including Bioethics, Genetics, Healthcare Policy, Islamic Ethics, Sharia, and Islamic Studies to address a range of issues like the international deliberations on GenEthics and parallel discussions and experiences in the Muslim world on various aspects, the interplay of predictive genetics and the metaphysical concept of ghayb (the unseen) in the Islamic tradition, how DNA paternity testing would fit within the Islamic juristic discussions on paternity and lineage (nasab), etc. exploring how scholarly disciplines rooted in the Islamic tradition (e.g., theology, philosophy, and Islamic Law) can contribute to the discourse on GenEthics.