Mohammad Hashim Kamali (Pashto/Dari: محمد هاشم کمالي ; born 7 February 1944) is an Afghan Islamic scholar and former professor of law at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.

"[2] Kamali studied his BA at University of Kabul and completed his LL.M.. in comparative law from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern law at the University of London, 1969–1976.

[4] In 2000 he published Islamic Commercial Law: An Analysis of Futures and Options, an analysis of options and futures contracts as trading tools from the point of view of shariah.

The book is divided into three parts: the first describes derivatives trading in its nuts-and-bolts in secular terms.

The second part looks at the issue of whether futures trading is permissible in Islamic law, and concludes that it is, due to the principle of maslaha, i.e. consideration of the public interest.