The Prophet's Pulpit by Khaled Abou El Fadl

The Prophet's Pulpit by Khaled Abou El Fadl

Praise for The Prophet's Pulpit: Commentaries on the State of Islam, Volume I

In this volume, one of the most gifted and influential Muslim scholars of our time critically examines the contemporary state of Islam, offering a set of inspirational meditations on its essential, but neglected, teachings. The result is profound, powerful, and transformative. This is a must-read.

Ziba Mir-Hosseini, author of Journeys Toward Gender Equality in Islam

The Prophet's Pulpit represents a courageous witness to our time's most pertinent injustices.Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the few remaining scholars to deploy his pen and pulpit in service of the lowly, the wretched, and the oppressed. More than ever, the Prophetic message of universal justice and beauty must ring louder than the mainstream resignation to a morally weak and quietist Islam.

Farah El-Sharif, Associate Director, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University

If you crave an Islam that speaks to every part of your life, that speaks to you as a living, thinking, loving, struggling, questioning person in the here and now, seeking affirmation of one's purpose in this complex, beautiful, brutal world, this is the book for you.

Randa Abdel-Fattah, author of Coming of Age in the War on Terror

In this collection of twenty-five Islamic sermons, Khaled Abou El Fadl, distinguished law professor and classically trained Islamic jurist, delivers incisive commentaries on the current state of Islam and the Muslim world from the symbolic pulpit of the Prophet of Islam. Part Qur'anic exegesis and part socio-ethical commentary, this second volume to the series expands upon the learning from Volume I and adds new sections that delve into current themes of racism, power, dignity, and raising Muslim youth.

Khaled Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Islamic Law and Chair of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. He has been recognized a Carnegie Scholar in Islamic Law and has served on the United States Supreme Court. Among other distinctions, he sat on the board of directors of Human Rights Watch and the Council for International Religious Freedom. He is the author of a number of publications, including The Great Crime and Islam's Quest for Beauty.