Author
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Scholar of Islamic law at UCLA
Khaled Abou El Fadl is Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and one of the foremost Western authorities on Islamic jurisprudence, trained in both the classical tradition and American law. He writes against puritanical readings of Islam from inside the tradition rather than outside it, which is what makes the argument land.
The Great Theft makes the case that extremists have appropriated a faith whose legal history is far more pluralistic and argumentative than either their followers or their critics assume.
