Khaled Abou El Fadl

Khaled Abou El Fadl
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Occupation	Islamic scholar, Professor of Law
Religion	Sunni Islam
Website
http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=386

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl (Arabic: خالد أبو الفضل‎, IPA: [ˈxæːled abolˈfɑdl]) (born 1963 in Kuwait) is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches Islamic law, immigration, human rights, international and national security law. He holds degrees from Yale University (B.A.), University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.) and Princeton University (M.A./Ph.D.). He also received formal training in Islamic jurisprudence in Egypt and Kuwait. He previously has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Yale Law School, and Princeton University.

Professor El-Fadl was appointed by former U.S. President George W. Bush as a commissioner on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. He advocates a strong support for human rights and sat on the Board of Directors for Human Rights Watch. Dr. El-Fadl currently serves on the Advisory Board of Middle East Watch.

He is a prolific author and prominent public intellectual on Islamic law and Islam.

Selected works

• The Centrality of Shari'ah to Government and Constitutionalism in Islam, in: Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity (eds. Rainer Grote / Tilmann Röder, Oxford University Press, 2011)
• The Search for Beauty in Islam: Conference of the Books (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006)
• The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (Harper San Francisco, 2005)
• Islam and the Challenge of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2004)
• Democracy and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan (Independent Publication, 2003)
• The Place of Tolerance in Islam (Beacon Press, 2002)
• And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses (UPA/Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)
• Speaking in God's Name: Islamic law, Authority and Women (Oneworld Press, Oxford, 2001)
• Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam (University Press of America/Rowman and Littlefield, 2001)
• Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

External links/resources

• UCLA Faculty Home Page
• Scholar of the House
• Links and Lectures
• Fresh Air Interview, 2003 (NPR)
• Audio Interview on Ideas and Issues (USF)
• Dialogue with the Islamic World
• Boston Review (A Political and Literary Forum, 2003)
• Islam as a Religion of Tolerance and Moderation