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Khaled Abou el Fadl
Born
(1963-10-23) October 23, 1963 (age 60)
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Occupation(s)
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Islamic scholar
Academic background
Alma mater
Yale University Princeton University University of Pennsylvania Law School
Influences
Muhammad al-Ghazali
Academic work
Discipline
Philosophy
Sub-discipline
Islamic philosophy
School or tradition
Islamic Modernism, Liberalism and progressivism within Islam
Notable works
The Search for Beauty in Islam: Conference of the Books (2001)
Khaled Abou el Fadl (Arabic: خالد أبو الفضل, IPA:[ˈxæːledabolˈfɑdl]) (born October 23, 1963) is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law where he has taught courses on International Human Rights, Islamic jurisprudence, National Security Law, Law and Terrorism, Islam and Human Rights, Political Asylum, and Political Crimes and Legal Systems. He is also the founder of the Usuli Institute, a non-profit public charity dedicated to research and education to promote humanistic interpretations of Islam, as well as the Chair of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He has lectured on and taught Islamic law in the United States and Europe in academic and non-academic environments since approximately 1990.
Abou El Fadl is the author of numerous books and articles on topics in Islam and Islamic law. He has appeared on national and international television and radio, and published in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Review. His work has been translated into several languages including Arabic, Persian, Indonesian, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Russian, Vietnamese and Japanese.
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