Our Visiting Researcher Dr. Esra Ukallo Receives Research Support from Qatar Foundation

Dr. Esra Ukallo, a visiting researcher at our School of Islamic Studies, is one of ten researchers awarded applied research support by Al-Mujadilah, part of the Qatar Foundation.

Dr. Ukallo’s project, titled “Fiqh of Artificial Intelligence” is an educational programme that addresses the questions of responsibility raised by artificial intelligence from the perspective of Islamic law.

The program introduces participants to the classical fiqh rulings and categories most pertinent to artificial intelligence, equipping them to apply these frameworks analytically to concrete, contemporary AI case studies. Utilizing medical AI as its primary illustrative domain, the program aims to build a functional competency far beyond mere superficial familiarity with the fiqhī toolkit required to reason through questions of agency, delegation, and liability raised by AI technologies.

The project is based on Dr. Ukallo’s doctoral research, completed at Ibn Haldun University.

We congratulate Dr. Esra Ukallo and wish her continued success in her work.