Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohammad Hashim KamaliFounding Chief Executive Officer, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, MalaysiaProfessor Dato’ Dr Mohammad Hashim Kamali is Founding CEO of the International Institute
of Advanced Islamic Studies, Malaysia and an internationally renowned scholar in his field of
specialisation. He was Professor of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at the International Islamic
University Malaysia (1985-2004), and then Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC) from 2004 to 2006. He holds a 1st Class Honours degree in Law and Political Science from Kabul University, Afghanistan, an LLM and Ph.D in Islamic and Middle
Eastern Law from the University of London. Dr Kamali was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University in Montreal, and later Research Associate with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He was a Visiting Professor at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio in 1991, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
(Wischenshaffskolleg zu Berln), Germany, 2000-2001. He served as member and sometime
Chairman of the Constitutional Review Commission of Afghanistan, in 2003. He is a Fellow of the International Institute of› Islamic Thought, Herndon Va, and is currently on the International Advisory Board of 13 academic journals published in Malaysia, USA, Canada, Kuwait, India and
Pakistan. He has addressed over 250 national and international conferences. He is the sole
author of 46 books, and co-author or editor of 19 books and over 260 academic articles. His
works have been hitherto translated into 13 languages.
Professor Kamali has been member and chairman of the CIMB Shariah Committee, Sunlife
Takaful Malaysia, and formerly Stanlib Corporation of South Africa. He was member of the
Shariah Advisory Council of the Securities Commission Malaysia. He is also Senior Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Jordan, and a Senior Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan.
He received the Isma›il al-Faruqi Award for Academic Excellence twice, in 1995 and 1997. He
is listed in a number of leading Who’s Who in the world. He features in the book The 500
Most Influential Muslims in the World (2009, 2010, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022). He is
a recipient of the King Abdullah II International Award 2010 in recognition of his intellectual
contributions towards serving Islam and Muslims. He is a recipient of the 24th Iran World Award for Book of the Year 2016 in 2017 and in 2019, he received the Special Award – Halal Global
Award on Islamic Civilisation Studies, 2019. In 2020, Professor Kamali was conferred with the
Darjah Dato’ Paduka Mahkota Perak (DPMP) (Kerhomat) Award (Title “Dato”) by His Royal
Highness The Sultan of Perak.