Larry Mantle talks with UCLA Law Professor and Muslim scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl, who shares his views about why Islamic "Puritanism” has risen in popularity over the last few decades. Mr. El Fadl ...

This brief book is elegant and surprising. It opens with an essay by the incomparable El Fadl, an Islamic law professor at UCLA, about tolerance in Islamic theology and among Muslims. He effectively ...

DR. KHALED ABOU EL FADL'S reputation as a moderate Muslim thinker earned him a seat on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom last May. He is an accomplished legal scholar and ...

Commenting on a new, English-language collection of writings and statements by Osama bin Laden, Khaled Abou El Fadl, a fellow in Islamic law at the University of California at Los Angeles, notes that ...

Khaled Abou El Fadl, a distinguished fellow in Islamic law at the University of California at Los Angeles, writes the lead article in a forum on whether democracy can develop in the Islamic world.

A UCLA professor of Islamic law, one of the nation’s most prominent Muslim critics of Saudi Arabia’s puritanical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on ...

The death threats began shortly after September 11, 2001. Every few days, for about four months, Khaled Abou El Fadl would receive an angry, anonymous phone call at either his San Fernando Valley home ...

books, most recently “The Place of Tolerance in Islam” (Beacon Press, 2002). But he gained international attention — and a flurry of death threats — after publishing an Op-Ed article in the Los ...

At the end of November, I was detained at the American-Canadian border, and I find myself struggling with feelings of resentment, anger and shame. I had traveled from Los Angeles to Edmonton, Canada, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Khaled Abou El Fadl is a Professor for the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2003 ...

The death threats began shortly after September 11, 2001. Every few days, for about four months, Khaled Abou El Fadl would receive an angry, anonymous phone call at either his San Fernando Valley home ...