# Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics

**Source**: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/cis/research/cile
**Parent**: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/research-institutes-centers

## Overview

The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), leads the reform and renewal of contemporary Islamic legal and ethical thought and behavior by contributing a sustainable ethical framework for addressing contemporary global challenges.

CILE’s initiative is maintained by the production, dissemination, and application of Islamic ethical thought and behavior.

###### Launched in January 2012, CILE specializes in Islamic Legislation and Ethics, with a focus on applied ethics in the fields of:

- Methodology
- Arts
- Environment
- Economics
- Education
- Food
- Gender
- Media
- Bioethics
- Migration and Human Rights
- Politics
- Psychology

CILE has developed the following methodological approaches to guide its work :

Reconciling spirituality and science, legislation and ethics, and laws and objectives, while emphasizing their complementary relationship.

A broad and positive view of the Islamic sources of legislation and ethics.

A practical spirit that transforms the science of Maqasid al-Sharia (higher objectives of Islam) from theory to practice in all spheres of life, contributing to the establishment of an Islamic legislative and ethical framework.

A trans-disciplinary assessment of contemporary legal and ethical challenges.

A holistic approach whereby scholars of texts from diverse Islamic traditions and scholars of the context from various natural and human sciences engage in an intellectual exercise.

Critical self-assessment and reasoning that goes beyond short-term crisis management in favor of creative, long-term, transformative solutions to world problems.

CILE also launched its publication activities in three languages; Arabic, English, and French, with the series of “Islam and Applied Ethics” with HBKU Press, online international peer-reviewed “Journal of Islamic Ethics” with Brill, based in Leiden in the Netherlands, to be published in French by Tawhid, and in Arabic by Al-Shabaka.