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Khaled Abou El Fadl

Khaled Abou El Fadl is Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law at UCLA and a 2005 Carnegie Scholar. He is author of The Great Theft: Wresting Islam from the Extremists and the Boston Review book The Place of Tolerance in Islam.

Articles

Why we must take Osama bin Laden’s writings seriously.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

Forums

How can a democratic conception of the people’s authority be reconciled with an Islamic understanding of God’s authority?

Khaled Abou El Fadl
On reading and misreading the Qur'an.
Khaled Abou El Fadl

Forum Responses

As I write, the war against Iraq rages on, and the sheer sense of trauma is overwhelming. Under such conditions, one must wonder whether a doctrinal conversation about Islam and democracy has...
Khaled Abou El Fadl
John Esposito aptly raises perhaps the most important question confronting Muslims today: What Islam? Which of the many manifestations of Islam throughout history is to help shape the moral import and meaning...
Khaled Abou El Fadl

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