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And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic ...

Khaled Abou El Fadl - Law - 2001 - 232 pages
The refusal of a Muslim basketball player to stand for the US national anthem in 1996, and the ensuing Islamophobic outcry, sparked Abou El Fadl (law, U. of California-Los ...
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Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age

Khaled Abou El Fadl - Religion - 2014 - 557 pages
In light of recent concern over Shari’ah, such as proposed laws to prohibit it in the United States and conflict over the role it should play in the new Egyptian constitution ...
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The Place of Tolerance in Islam

Khaled Abou El Fadl - Religion - 2002 - 132 pages
Khaled Abou El Fadl, a prominent critic of Islamic puritanism, leads off this lively debate by arguing that Islam is a deeply tolerant religion. Injunctions to violence against ...
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The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books

Khaled Abou El Fadl - Law - 2006 - 442 pages
Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and ...
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Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam

Khaled Abou El Fadl - Political Science - 2001 - 448 pages
Abou El Fadl (Islamic law, UCLA School of Law) wrote the 62 brief essays here over the course of five years. Through a combination of musings and critical reflections on ...
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Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law

Khaled Abou El Fadl - Law - 2001
Khaled Abou El Fadl's book represents the first systematic examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists ...
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