OVERVIEW
Dr. Ahmad Saad Ahmad Al-Dafrawi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 25, 1973. He earned his PhD of Law from the Ahmad Ibrahim School of Law, International Islamic University Malaysia (2017-2021). He earned his Master’s degree in Public Law from Middle East University, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2010-2012). He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Baghdad, College of Law (1991-1995).
Current position: He works as a professor of Private Law at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Indonesia, where he teaches undergraduate and master’s degree students.
- Legal Expert in Murder and Suicide crimes caused by Steroids abuse in sports
competitions. - Legal expert of Medical law, especially genetic modification and manipulation
issues, and medical compensation issues. - Legal Researcher and Writer.
AL-Dafrawi is also working on these points:
- Preparing and submitting legal proposals that are custom-made and catered to unique and specific needs for countries in helping them establish and/or further develop their legal system against doping in sports.
- Draft effective penal codes to ensure the campaign against doping in sports at a very high level.
- Working with government agencies and putting their national curriculum into modules, seminars and programs that raise awareness among students at primary, secondary and tertiary educations levels, focusing on the campaign against doping in sports.
In November 2019, he received an official invitation and visa to participate in the fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport, held at the International
Conference Centre (MCK), 5–7 November 2019: Katowice, Republic of Poland.
PROFILE
- As for the first university semester, Islāmic Theology (lecture language: English).
- As for the second university semester, the following subjects:
a. Introduction to Islāmic Law, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
b. Arabic for Islāmic Law, Faculty of Islamic Studies, UII (Lecture language: Arabic).
c. Islām Rahmatan LilꜤAlamin, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
d. Method of Legal Research, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
e. Islāmic Marriage Law, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English). - As for the third university semester, the following subjects:
a. Islāmic Banking Law, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
b. Islāmic Contracts & Islāmic Business Law, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
c. Islām Rahmatan LilꜤAlamin, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
d. Islām Ulil al-Bāb., Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English). - As for the fourth university semester, Ganjil semester, the following subjects:
a. Islāmic International Law, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
b. Introduction to Islāmic Law, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
c. Islām Rahmatan LilꜤAlamin, Faculty of Law, UII, (Lecture language: English).
d. Bahasa Inggris (English), Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
e. Islām Rahmatan LilꜤAlamin, Faculty of Business and Economics, UII, (Lecture language: English). - As for the fifth university semester, Genap semester, the following subjects:
a. Islāmic Contracts & Islāmic Business Law, Faculty of Law, UII (Lecture language: English).
Publications
- A legal study published in (WoS – Scopus/Q1) Scopus indexed journal: AL-Dafrawi, A. S. A., & Yahya, M. T. (2025). Reconciling Maṣlaḥah and the Rule of Distinction in the Yemen Conflict. Prophetic Law Review, 7(2), 199–225. https://doi.org/10.20885/PLR.vol7.iss2.art3
- An article published in the (Q2) Scopus-indexed Journal: Al-Dafrawi, Ahmad Saad Ahmad. “Critical Legal Reading of World Anti-Doping Agency’s Gene Doping Guidance,” Hasanuddin Law Review 9 no. 3 (2023): 269-286. DOI: 10.20956/halrev.v9i3.4653
- An Editorial indexed under (WoS- Scopus/Q4) journal: AL-Dafrawi, Ahmad.2023. “Absence of Reliable Screening Methods That Prove the Use of Gene Doping in Sports”. MHSalud: Revista En Ciencias Del Movimiento Humano Y Salud 20 (1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.15359/mhs.20-1.14
- A review indexed under (Q4) Scopus Journal: AL-Dafrawi, A. S. A. (2022). WADA Prohibited List: The Benefits of Combining Pharmacology, Medicine, and Law. ASM Science Journal, 17: pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.32802/asmscj.2022.1291
- An Arabic article in (WoS – Scopus/Q2) indexed journal: Ahmad Saad Ahmad AL-Dafrawi “The Dual Nature of Physical Steroids: Normative Concepts between Civil Jurisprudence and ShariꜤah”, Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, (2022). https://doi.org/10.29117/jcsis.2022.0335
- Article in (Q1) Scopus Journal: Al-Dafrawi, Ahmad Saad Ahmad. “An Islamic Viewpoint on Doping in Sports: An Analytical Study.” Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization 10, no. 2 (2020): 106-126. https://doi.org/10.32350/jitc.102.07
- Al-Dafrawi, Ahmad Saad Ahmad, Mohamad Asmadi Abdullah, Majdah Zawawi, and Zainudin Ismail. “PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING MEDICINES IN SPORTS: LEGAL DISCUSSION.” International Journal of Law, Government and Communication 4, no. 17 (2019): 48-60. DOI: 10.35631/ijlgc.417005
- Ahmad Saad Ahmad AL-Dafrawi, Mohamad Asmadi Bin Abdullah, Majdah Binti Zawawi, Zainudin Bin Ismail. “Taking steroids in the sports field: (Islamic and Conventional Law perspective).” International Journal for Muslim World Studies (IJMWS) 17, no. 1 (2019): 318-355.
- AL-Dafrawi, Ahmad Saad Ahmad, Mohamad Asmadi bin Abdullah, Majdah Zawawi, and Zainudin bin Ismail. “Consuming Prohibited Substances in Sport Activities: A Legal and Shariah Perspective: تعاطي المنشـطات المحظـورة في الأنشـطة
الرياضـية: رؤيـة قانونيـة شـرعـية”. International Journal of Fiqh and Usul Al-Fiqh Studies 2, no. Spcl (2018): 23-37. https://journals.iium.edu.my/al-fiqh/index.php/al-fiqh/article/view/77 - Ahmad Saad Ahmad AL-Dafrawi. “Taking Physical Steroids in Sport Competitions (From an Ethical-Legal Perspective).” Journal of Political Science and Law 2, no. 9 (2018): 188-206.











