Associate Professor

Dr. Gammal is Associate Professor of Comparative Fiqh at CIS - HBKU. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the College of Law in Al-Azhar University. He holds a PhD (2005) and a Master degree (2002) in Comparative 

Dr. Swelim is currently Associate Professor of Urban Design and Architecture at College of Islamic Studies – HBKU. He holds a PhD (1994) in Islamic Art and Architecture from Harvard University and a Masters (1986) from American University, Egypt. He received his BA (1979) from Helwan University, Egypt. He has previously held positions as a Visiting Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Ain Shams University and the American University in Cairo.

Dr. Joseph Lumbard is Associate Professor of Quranic Studies at CIS. He has previously taught at the American University of Sharjah, Brandeis University, and the American University in Cairo. He also served as Advisor for Interfaith Affairs to the Jordanian Royal Court.

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.

Dr. Mustafa Disli is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at CIS. He received a BA degree in Economics, an MA in Economics, an MA in Banking and Finance, and a PhD from Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests are in the areas of (Islamic) banking and finance, energy and sustainable economics, and behavioral economics and finance. Dr.

Dr. Mohamed Eskandar is the Academic Dean and an Associate Professor in the Master of Science in Islamic Finance Program. He was Associate Dean of School of Graduate and Professional Studies at the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF). He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Nottingham, a Master in International Economics and Finance from the University of Queensland, and a Bachelor in Business Administration (Finance) from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

Dr Alexandre Caeiro is Associate Professor at CIS – HBKU since 2012. He has been in research at various Universities at Germany, France and the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (2011) from Utrecht University, MA (2002) from School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, and BA (2001) from Trinity College, Dublin. His research broadly deals with the transformations of Islamic law in modern contexts.

Frank is an Associate Professor at College of Islamic Studies, HBKU. Before joining CIS, he was Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern (2010-2015) where he received his Habilitation in Islamic Studies. He received his Ph.D. from University of France in 2002. He has studied modern history, Islamic studies and Arabic in Hamburg, University of France and Damascus. His Research interest lies in History of the Modern Middle East, Secularism, Political Religion and Islamophobia.