Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib is currently Associate Professor of Methodology and Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, as well as the first-of-its-kind MA program in Applied Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Damascus (1997) and in Arabic Literature from Al-Azhar University.
Al-Khatib was a founding member of the al-Multaqā al-Fikrī li-l Ibdā’ (Intellectual Forum for Innovation, 1999), and the anchor of “Al Sharia wa-l Ḥayāt” program on Al Jazeera Channel (2004 -2013). He was also Editor-in-Chief of the section "Islam and Contemporary Affairs" on IslamOnline.net (2003-2008).
He was a visiting fellow at ZMO in Berlin (2006) and a visiting scholar at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin (2012-2013) as well as a Visiting Lecturer at the American University of Beirut, the Islamic University of Beirut and Qatar University. He has presented lectures at various reputable academic institutions.
He is a reviewer for a number of journals and has authored and edited several books and over 30 academic articles on Ḥadīth criticism, Islamic Ethics, Islamic intellectual history, Maqāṣid (the higher objectives of Sharia) and Islamic Law. He has also written numerous journal articles for Arabic language newspapers and magazines.
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2020 - PresentCIS, HBKU
2020 - PresentCILE
2014 - 2020CIS, HBKU
2014 - 2020American University of Beirut
Winter 2018 – 2019Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
2012 - 2013Qatar University
Fall 2010 – Spring 2011Islamic University of Beirut
Fall 2010 – Spring 2010Al Jazeera Network, Doha
2005 - 2013Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
2006Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf), Doha
2000 - 2005Omdurman Islamic University
2009Omdurman Islamic University
2002Arabic Language
1998Al-Azhar University, Cairo
1998Omdurman Islamic University
1997In Abo-Alabbas, B., Dann, M., & Melchert, C. (Eds.). Modern Ḥadīth Studies. Edinburgh University Press.
2020In Bagheri, A. (Ed). Abortion: Global Perspectives and Practices. Notre Dame University Press.
2020In Ghaly, M. (Ed.). Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question. Leiden: Brill.
2019In Gräf, B., Krawietz, B., & Amir-Moazami, S. (Eds.). Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies: Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer. Leiden: Brill.
2018In Gräf, B., & Skovgaard-Petersen, J. (Eds.). The Global Mufti: the phenomenon of Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī. Columbia University Press.
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