Ayman Shabana
Ayman Shabana is associate professor of theology and Chair of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University in Qatar and director of the Islamic Bioethics Project. His interests include Islamic legal and intellectual history; Islamic law and ethics; religious studies and moral philosophy; and applied ethics, human rights, and bioethics. He is the author of Custom in Islamic Law and Legal Theory (2010), in addition to several book chapters and academic journal articles. In 2012, he received the Research Excellence Award at the Qatar Annual Research Forum, and during the academic year 2013-2014 he was a visiting research fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Shabana received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles; his M.A. from Leiden University in the Netherlands; and his B.A. from Al-Azhar University in Egypt.