September 2025 - August 2026
Study Mode
Full-time
Application start 4 November 2024
Application end 15 January 2025
Application end (with scholarship) 15 January 2025
Islamic Law and Jurisprudence / Islamic International Law / Islamic Law of Armed Conflict / Islam and International Humanitarian Law / Islamic Criminal Law / Islamic International Criminal Law / Islamic Constitutional Law / Conflict Resolution under Islamic Law / Terrorism and Islam / Islam and Human Rights
Dr Ahmed Al-Dawoody is the Legal Adviser for Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Prior to joining the ICRC, he was an Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies and Islamic law at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He was also the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies for the Institute for Islamic World Studies at Zayed University in Dubai.
Ahmed Al-Dawoody earned his PhD from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; his MA from Leiden University, the Netherlands; and BA from Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
He has published many articles, including on the relation between Islamic Law and international humanitarian law and is the author of The Islamic Law of War: Justifications and Regulations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Ahmed Al-Dawoody
International Review of the Red Cross, Cambirdge University Presss
Ahmed Al-Dawoody
International Criminal Law Review, Vol. 15, Issue 3, Spring
Ahmed Al-Dawoody
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, Vol. 27, Issue 3
Ahmed Al-Dawoody
Palgrave Mc Millian