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Mutaz Al-Khatib is Assistant Professor of Methodologies and history of Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Doha, Qatar. He is also the coordinator of the MA Program in Applied Islamic Ethics at CIS, and a member of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics (CILE).

 Dr. Mutaz earned his Bachelors in Islamic Studies from Damascus in 1997, as well as his Bachelors in Arabic Literature from al-Azhar University, Cairo in 1998. He received his MA in 2002 and PhD in 2009 on "The Textual Critical Approach of Hadith: A Study into the Methods of Traditionalists (Muhaddithun) & Legal Theorists (Usuliyun)", published in Beirut, 2011.

 Al-Khatib was a founding member of the Intellectual Forum for Innovation (1999), the Editor-in-Chief of the section “Islam and Contemporary Affairs” on IslamOnline.net (2003-2008), and the anchor of “Alsharia and Life” program on Al-Jazeera Channel (2004-2013). He was a visiting fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orien (ZMO) in Berlin (2006), a visiting scholar at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin (2012-2013), and a visiting lecturer at the American University of Beirut, the Islamic University of Beirut and Qatar University.

Al-Khatib has delivered lectures and participated in conferences internationally in a range of universities including Oxford University, University of Cambridge, Princeton University [Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia], Florida University, University of California [Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)], Tubingen University, University of Ludwig-Maximilians [Institute for the Near and Middle East], and Osnabrück University,

Currently, Al-Khatib is a reviewer for the Islamization of Knowledge from the International Institute of Islamic Thought Journal, the Journal of al-Tajdīd from the International Islamic University, Malaysia; and the Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, Qatar. He is also an editorial board member of Journal of Islamic Ethics and the book series “Studies in Islamic Ethics” both published by Brill. He is the Principle Investigator (PI) of a largescale project on genomics and Islamic ethics funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), and has authored some books including Hadith criticism, Islamic interpretation methods, Islamic intellectual history, and Islamic Law, The Textual Critical Approach To Ḥadīth: A Study Of The Methods Of Traditionalists And Jurists (Beirut: Arab Network for Studies and Publishing, 2011), and The Justified Violence: Sharīʿa Versus The People And The State (Cairo: Dar Almashriq, 2017).

He also edited several books and published over 30 academic articles in Arabic and English on Ḥadīth criticism, Islamic Ethics, Islamic intellectual history, Maqāṣid (the higher objectives of Sharia) and Islamic Law, some of them published by Brill and Oxford as well as Arabic newspapers and magazines including Al-Hayat, Weghat Nazar, and al-Manār al-Jadīd.