Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam

by Khaled M. Abou El Fadl

Overview

Based on actual cases, these original essays present an honest and critical evaluation of the problems and challenges that confront Muslims in the Contemporary world. Using the Muslim experience in the United States as a lens, the author examines what he identifies as a pervasive alienation suffered by Muslims over their place in history, source of identity, and moral foundations. This book attempts to reclaim what the author maintains is a core moral value in Islam- the value of beauty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761820819
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	11/06/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

Khaled M. Abou El Fadl is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law where he teaches Islamic Law, Immigration, Human Rights, Terrorism, and National Security Law.

Editorial Reviews

This highly original book is in part a dialogue with Muslim scholars in the past, and, in part, a hymn to an enthralling vision that 'beauty' is to bring life to the truth of the Prophet. The dialogue shows the enormous breadth of [the author's] reading in classic works of learning by Muslims, and his vision suggests a new spiritual esthetic, which is both inspiring and challenging.

Roy Parviz Mottahedeh

El Fadl attempts to offer interpretations that are humanistic and accommodating to modern values, yet simultaneously challenging for traditionalist scholars and preachers.

The Library Quarterly - An-Chi Hoh Dianu

Khaled Abou El Fadl is emerging as a major Muslim voice for the twenty-first century. 'Conference of the Books' is an excellent introduction to the ideas, insights, and reflections of this important scholar of Islam and Islamic law, author, and poet.

Prof. John L. Esposito

Each independent essay may be read in any order, but collectively they illustrate richness and diversity...

Religious Studies Review - Charles C. Kolb

Khaled Abou El Fadl is emerging as a major Muslim voice for the twenty-first century. 'Conference of the Books' is an excellent introduction to the ideas, insights, and reflections of this important scholar of Islam and Islamic law, author, and poet.

Professor John L. Esposito

El Fadl attempts to offer interpretations that are humanistic and accommodating to modern values, yet simultaneously challenging for traditionalist scholars and preachers.
— An-Chi Hoh Dianu

The Library Quarterly

Each independent essay may be read in any order, but collectively they illustrate richness and diversity...
— Charles C. Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities

Religious Studies Review

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, the most important scholar writing on Islamic jurisprudence and its development in the American context today, sets a high standard here for legal discourse and practice among North American Muslims.

Karen Leonard

El Fadl attempts to offer interpretations that are humanistic and accommodating to modern values, yet simultaneously challenging for traditionalist scholars and preachers.--An-Chi Hoh Dianu "The Library Quarterly "

This highly original book is in part a dialogue with Muslim scholars in the past, and, in part, a hymn to an enthralling vision that 'beauty' is to bring life to the truth of the Prophet. The dialogue shows the enormous breadth of [the author's] reading in classic works of learning by Muslims, and his vision suggests a new spiritual esthetic, which is both inspiring and challenging.--Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Harvard University

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, the most important scholar writing on Islamic jurisprudence and its development in the American context today, sets a high standard here for legal discourse and practice among North American Muslims.--Karen Leonard, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

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