Biography:Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Mohammad Hashim Kamali محمد هاشم کمالي | |
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| Born | 7 February 1944 Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan |
| Occupation | Islamic scholar |
Mohammad Hashim Kamali (Pashto/Dari: محمد هاشم کمالي ; born 7 February 1944) is an Afghan Islamic scholar and former professor of law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia. He taught Islamic law and jurisprudence between 1985 and 2004.[1] One author has described him as "the most widely read living author on Islamic law in the English language."[2]
Education
Kamali studied his BA at University of Kabul and completed his LL.M.. in comparative law from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern law at the University of London, 1969–1976.[1]
Academic career
Kamali served as Professor of Islamic law and jurisprudence at the International Islamic University Malaysia, and also as Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilisation (ISTAC) from 1985 to 2007.[3] He currently is the chairman of the Institute for Law and Society (ILSAF).[4]
Publications
- Freedom of Expression in Islam (1994)
- Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Reprint, Petaling Jaya, 1999)
- Islamic Commercial Law (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2000)
- A Textbook of Hadith Studies (Islamic Foundation, UK, 2005)
- An Introduction to Shari’ah (Oneworld Publications, Oxford 2008)
- Shari'ah Law: An Introduction (Viva Books 2009)
- “Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: A Contemporary Perspective of Islamic Law,” in: Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity (eds. Rainer Grote and Tilmann Röder, Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2011)
- Moderation and balance in Islam: The Qurʼānic Principle of Wasatiyyah (Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York, 2010)
- The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam: The Qurʼānic Principle of Wasatiyyah (Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York, 2015)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mohammad Hashim Kamali | Karamah". http://karamah.org/authors/mohammad-hashim-kamali.
- ↑ Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Defining Islamic Statehood: Measuring and Indexing Contemporary Muslim States, Springer (2015), p. xiv
- ↑ Marcinkowski, Christoph (2009). The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalisation. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 312. ISBN 978-3-643-80001-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=FvAcKe6OB_gC&pg=PA312. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
- ↑ https://www.ilsaf.org/ Institute for Law and Society. Retriebed 7 November 2022.
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