Dr. Mohammed Ghaly received his masters
and PhD in Islamic studies from Leiden
University in the Netherlands. He was a faculty
member there from 2007-2013, and since 2011
he has been a faculty member for the Erasmus
Mundus Master of Bioethics, a program
jointly organized by a number of European
universities. Dr. Ghaly is currently Professor of
Islam and Biomedical Ethics at the Research
Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE) at
Hamad Bin Khalifia University in Qatar.
Dr. Ghaly’s research interests are primarily in
the field of Islamic studies, including Islamic
theology, law, and biomedical ethics. He is
the lead Principal Investigator and research
consultant for a number of projects and
has given many invited lectures on Islamic
bioethics at universities worldwide, including
Imperial College London, Oxford University,
University of Oslo, University of Chicago, and
Georgetown University. In 2012, Dr. Ghaly
was awarded the prestigious VENI grant from
the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research. From 2014-2015, he was a Visiting
Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at
Georgetown University. Dr. Ghaly is the author
of the book Islam and Disability: Perspectives
in Theology and Jurisprudence, published in
2010, and has published numerous articles in
reputable journals in the fields of Islamic studies
and bioethics. He also serves on the editorial
boards of a number of academic journals and
is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Islamic Ethics.