Professor Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali is Founding CEO of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia. He was Professor of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at the International Islamic University Malaysia (1985-2004), and also Dean of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) from 2004 to 2006. He currently is the chairman of the Institute for Law and Society (ILSAF). He is one of the most widely read living author on Islamic law in the English language. Kamali studied his BA at University of Kabul and completed his LLM. in comparative law from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern law at the University of London, 1969–1976. Professor Kamali serves on the advisory boards of 13 local and international academic journals. He is currently Chairman, CIMB Shariah Committee 2007; Senior Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS); Senior Fellow, Aal al-Bayt Royal Institute of Islamic Thought; Chairman, Shariah Board, Stanlib Corporation, South Africa; Senior Fellow, Afghanistan Academy of Sciences; Editor-in-chief, Islam and Civilization Renewal, IAIS Malaysia; and Non-Executive Director, CIMB Islamic Bank Bhd. Professor Kamali has addressed over 120 national and international conferences, and published numerous books and more than 130 academic articles. Amongst his published works are “Freedom of Expression in Islam” (Cambridge, 1997); “Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam” (Cambridge, 2002); and “A Textbook of Hadith Studies” (Leicester, UK, 2005); Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (1999), Islamic Commercial Law (Cambridge, 2000), An Introduction to Shari’ah (Oxford, 2008), Shari'ah Law: An Introduction (2009), “Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: A Contemporary Perspective of Islamic Law,” (Oxford, 2011); Moderation and balance in Islam: The Qurʼānic Principle of Wasatiyyah (Oxford, 2010); The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam: The Qurʼānic Principle of Wasatiyyah (Oxford, 2015). He was twice awarded IIUM’s ‘Isma‘il al-Faruqi Award for Academic Excellence’ in 1995 & 1997 and also the King Abdullah I bin Hussein International Award in 2010.