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.

The Crusader

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

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy — Final Response

Final Response

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy

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

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • John L. Esposito
  • Nader Hashemi
  • Noah Feldman
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • M.A. Muqtedar Khan
  • A. Kevin Reinhart
  • Saba Mahmood
  • Mohammad Fadel
  • Bernard Haykel
  • William B. Quandt

The Place of Tolerance in Islam — Final Response

Final Response

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl

The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading and misreading the Qur’an.

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • Amina Wadud
  • John L. Esposito
  • Sohail H. Hashmi
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