Mohammad Hashim Kamali Explained

Mohammad Hashim Kamali Pushto; Pashto: {{nq|محمد هاشم کمالي
Birth Date:	1944 2, df=y
Birth Place:	Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Occupation:	Islamic scholar

Mohammad Hashim Kamali (Pashto/Dari: ; 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mohammad Hashim Kamali Karamah.
2. [Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf]
3. Book: Marcinkowski, Christoph. The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalisation. 27 July 2010. 2009. LIT Verlag Münster. 978-3-643-80001-5. 312.
4. https://www.ilsaf.org/ Institute for Law and Society. Retriebed 7 November 2022.