Dr. Jasser Auda is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Center of Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Qatar Foundation. He is a founding member and member of the Executive Board of the International Union of Muslim Scholars; former founding director of the Maqasid Research Center in the Phi...
Dr. Jasser Auda is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Center of Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Qatar Foundation. He is a founding member and member of the Executive Board of the International Union of Muslim Scholars; former founding director of the Maqasid Research Center in the Philosophy of Islamic law in London; fellow of the International Institute of Advanced Systems Research in Canada; member of the UK Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism, and a visiting lecturer to universities and institutes in Egypt, Canada, USA, UK, Malaysia, and India. He has a PhD from the University of Wales, UK, in the philosophy of Islamic law, a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in systems analysis, in addition to early traditional studies in the Quran and Islamic sciences in Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. He has lectured on Islamic law, and its relation to ethics and policy, in dozens of countries around the world, and has written a number of books. His latest books this year in Arabic and English, respectively, are: Maqasid Al-Shariah as Philosophy of Islamic Law: A Systems Approach, London/Beirut: IIIT, and Between Shariah and Politics: Questions in the Post-Revolutions Era, Beirut/Cairo: Al-Shabakah Al-Arabiyyah.
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