Dr. Mutaz is currently an Associate Professor of Methodology and Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, and 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 and an MA (2002) and Ph.D. (2009) in Islamic Studies from Omdurman Islamic 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.
