Khaled Abou El Fadl

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Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl (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.

Professor El-Fadl was appointed by President George W. Bush as a commissioner on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. He adovocates a strong support for human rights and sat on the Board of Directors for Human Rights Watch [1]. Dr. El-Fadl currently serves on the on the Advisory Board of Middle East Watch.

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

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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)