Dr. Ibrahim M. Zain is currently Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Religion at the College of Islamic Studies. He obtained his PhD in Religion from Temple University in 1989 and began his career in the Department of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum. After becoming Head of Department, he reflected upon the prospects of teaching
Dr. Abdulazeem holds a Ph.D (2001) and a Masters (1998) in Islamic Financial Law from Damascus University. He has BA in Arabic Literature, English Literature and Islamic Law, and Higher Diplomas in Islamic Law and Human Sciences. He has worked at universities as well as Islamic banks. His research interests lie in the fields of Islamic Law, Islamic Finance and Islamic Banking. He was recently promoted to the rank of Professor at CIS – HBKU. He has previously taught at International Islamic University, Malaysia.
Dr Aisha Y. Al-Mannai is the Director of the Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Contribution to Civilization (CMCC) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She is also a member of the Arab Parliament, the Shura Council (Qatar) and League of Arab States. The author of several articles and books on theology, tasawwuf and religions, Prof.
Dr. Mustafa specializes in dentistry, biochemistry, and international relations. His work experience includes being a lecturer in many universities and he has also worked as the Foreign Minister of Sudan, and the Ambassador of Sudan to the United Nations (UN) and to Switzerland. He was a special envoy of the Arab League to Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. He is now a Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the UN-DNCD partnership, a member of the Arab Crisis Team (ACT) in Jordan and Oman, and a member of the executive board of the Global Forum for Moderation.
Dr. Ahmet Aysan is a professor at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) and the Program Coordinator of the PhD and MS programs in Islamic Finance and Economy. He has been the Board Member and Monetary Policy Committee member of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and served as a consultant at various institutions such as the World Bank, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, and Oxford Analytica. Dr.
Dr. Syed Nazim Ali is Research Professor and Director of the Research Division at CIS. He has spent the last 30 years spearheading interdisciplinary research in Islamic finance and faith-based initiatives in finance as well as community development.
Dr. Louay Safi is Professor of Political Science and Islamic Thought at CIS and Senior Fellow with the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) and Georgetown University’s Center for
Dr Akel Ismail Kahera holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies, with Honours from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He currently serves as a Professor of Islamic Art, Architecture and Sustainable Urbanism at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar. As an educator, Professor Kahera has over three decades of research, teaching and scholarly publications on the subject of Architectural History Theory and Criticism, Islamic Art and Architecture, Non-Western Architecture, Urbanism, The American Mosque, and Design Studio.
Dr. Ray Jureidini is Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) and the first-of-its-kind Master of Arts program in Applied Islamic Ethics at CIS. He grew up in Australia, completing his studies in Industrial and Economic Sociology at Flinders University in South Australia.