Khaled Abou el Fadl | |
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| Born | October 23, 1963 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: [ˈxæːled abolˈfɑdl]) (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 around 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.