Dr. Muhammad Ahmad Munir

Dr. Muhammad Ahmad Munir is a scholar of Islamic law, jurisprudence, and Qur’anic studies, currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Islamic Research Institute (IRI) of the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI). He heads the Department of Qur’anic Studies and is the Editor of Islamic Studies, a SCOPUS-indexed journal of international repute.He holds a PhD and an MA in Islamic Studies from McGill University, Canada, where he also taught courses in Islamic law, Arabic, and Urdu. Prior to that, he earned a B.A. (Hons), MA, and M.Phil. in Islamic Studies from the University of the Punjab. Dr. Munir also received advanced training in Islamic sciences and Arabic at Al-Azhar University and affiliated institutions in Cairo.Dr. Munir has been a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and a postdoctoral fellow at the Douglas Research Center in Montreal. His areas of expertise include classical and modern Islamic jurisprudence, therapeutic jurisprudence, fatwa studies, and Qur’anic hermeneutics. He has presented his research at leading institutions including Boston University, New York University, Harvard Law School, and the University of Melbourne.His Urdu monograph Aḥkām-i Nikāḥ (2021) explores classical rulings on Muslim marriage law, and he is co-editor of the Urdu translation of Wahba al-Zuḥaylī’s Al-Fiqh al-Islāmī wa Adillatuhu. He has also published extensively in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Law & Medicine, Islamic Studies, Fikr-o-Nazar, and Al-Qamar on topics ranging from judicial khulʿ and brain death to Sunni identity formation and interpretive methodologies in Islamic legal theory.