seeking THE PATH to the divine (shari'ah)
THROUGH BEAUTY AND REASON
We are working for a new enlightenment and a new way to engage the world as faithful Muslims, insisting on Beauty and Reasonableness as the true measures that define our faith.
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"...To win this very real war that has done inestimable damage to so many Muslims and to the truth of the Islamic faith, it is absolutely imperative that moderates declare a counter-jihad against the puritan heresy. This is not a call for the shedding of blood; it is a call for matching the zeal of puritans through unrelenting intellectual activism. This is a counter-jihad to reclaim the truth about the Islamic faith and win the hearts and minds of Muslims and non-Muslims all around the world..."
Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
"A Theology of Moral Progress: A Review of Khaled Abou El Fadl's Reasoning with God"
"...Khaled Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches International Human Rights and other subjects. He has served on the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch, the US Commission for International Freedom and has won numerous awards, including The University of Oslo’s Human Rights Award – Lisl and Leo Eitinger Prize. He is perhaps best known for The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books (2006), The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (2005) and other books. Reasoning with God, which took ten years to write, is his eighth and most important book.
"What gives Abou El Fadl such a powerful and persuasive pen is his intimate knowledge of and affection for two intellectual and civilisational traditions: the Western and the Islamic. His Ivy League education and his formal training in Islamic jurisprudence in Egypt and Kuwait allows him to probe, critique and analyse both traditions at a profound level while making insightful cross-comparisons. He has thought long and hard about the challenges facing Muslim societies today, with a particular focus on how to reconcile tradition with modernity. While he has been invariably described as a shaykh, a law professor, a human rights scholar and a public intellectual, the label that best fits him is that of a Muslim ethicist..."
Excerpt from "A Theology of Moral Progress," Critical Muslim, no. 24 (2015)