Mohammad Hashim Kamali محمد هاشم کمالي
Born	(1944-02-07)7 February 1944 (age 81) Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Occupation	Islamic scholar

Mohammad Hashim Kamali (Pashto/Dari:محمد هاشم کمالي ; born 7 February 1944) is anAfghanIslamic scholar and former professor of law at theInternational Islamic University of Malaysia. He taughtIslamic law and jurisprudence between 1985 and 2004.^[1] One author has described him as "the most widely read living author on Islamic law in the English language."^[2]

Kamali studied his BA atUniversity of Kabul and completed hisLL.M.. in comparative law fromThe London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern law at theUniversity of London, 1969–1976.^[1]

Kamali served as Professor of Islamic law and jurisprudence at theInternational Islamic University Malaysia, and also as Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilisation (ISTAC) from 1985 to 2007.^[3] He currently is the chairman of theInstitute for Law and Society (ILSAF).^[4]

In 2000 he publishedIslamic Commercial Law: An Analysis of Futures and Options, an analysis ofoptions andfutures contracts as trading tools from the point of view ofshariah. The book is divided into three parts: the first describesderivatives trading in its nuts-and-bolts in secular terms. The second part looks at the issue of whetherfutures trading is permissible in Islamic law, and concludes that it is, due to the principle ofmaslaha, i.e. consideration of the public interest. The third part of the book draws the same conclusion with regard to options.^[5][6] BusinessmanMohammed Amin recommended the book.^[7]

• Freedom of Expression in Islam (1994)
• Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Reprint, Petaling Jaya, 1999)
• Islamic Commercial Law (Cambridge:Islamic Texts Society, 2000)
• A Textbook of Hadith Studies (Islamic Foundation, UK, 2005)
• An Introduction to Shari’ah (Oneworld Publications, Oxford 2008)
• Shari'ah Law: An Introduction (Viva Books 2009)
• “Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: A Contemporary Perspective of Islamic Law,” in:Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity (eds. Rainer Grote and Tilmann Röder,Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2011)
• Moderation and balance in Islam: The Qurʼānic Principle of Wasatiyyah (Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York, 2010)
• The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam: The Qurʼānic Principle of Wasatiyyah (Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York, 2015)

• Alumni of SOAS University of London
• Islamic studies scholars
• Legal scholars
• Living people
• Malaysian people of Malay descent
• Malaysian Muslims
• 1944 births
• Academic staff of the International Islamic University Malaysia
• Muslim scholars of Islamic jurisprudence
• Muslim scholars of Islamic studies
• People from Nangarhar Province

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