Khaled Abou El Fadl was born in Kuwait in 1963. He is a professor of Islamic Law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches International Human Rights, Islamic Jurisprudence, National Security Law, Law and Terrorism, Islam and Human Rights, Political Asylum and Political Crimes and Legal Systems.
He also teaches Islam and Citizenship at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. Among his many honors and distinctions, Abou El Fadl was awarded the University of Oslo Human Rights Award, the Leo and Lisl Eitinger Prize in 2007, and named a Carnegie Scholar in Islamic Law in 2005. He was also nominated by the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, and was as a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch. He continues to serve on the Advisory Board of Middle East Watch as part of Human Rights Watch and regularly works with human rights organizations.
Dr. Abou El Fadl is the author of 14 books (five forthcoming) and wrote over 50 articles on various topics about Islam. His most recent works focus on the issues of human rights, democracy and the beauty in Islam, and Islamic law. His book, The Great Theft, was the first work to delineate the key differences between moderate and extremist Muslims. His book, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books, is a landmark work in modern Muslim literature.
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