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A selection of published articles by Dr. Abou El Fadl have been made available to Scholar of the House below:

The Tragedy of Great Power: The Massacre of Gaza and the Inevitable Failure of the Arab Spring (Article Included)

• Bibliography of Dr. Abou El Fadl

• "Speaking, Killing and Loving in God's Name," The Hedgehog Review, Spring 2004 (Article Included)

• “Dogs in the Islamic Tradition and Nature” (Article Included)

• The Orphans of Modernity and the Clash of Civilisations (Article Included)

• "Islamic Sex Laws" (Article Included)

• “Holy War Versus Jihad: A Review"

• Article by Khaled Abou El Fadl: "The Crusader", Boston Review, March/April 2006

• ARTICLE: "In Recognition of Women" by Khaled Abou El Fadl

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, Boston Review, April-May 2003 Issue

• The Place of Tolerance in Islam, Boston Review, Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002 Issue

• "Peaceful Jihad," from the book Taking Back Islam, edited by Michael Wolfe (chapter included)

• "The Theology of Power," MERIP, Winter 2001

• "What Became of Tolerance in Islam?" Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2001

• Terrorism is at Odds with Islamic Tradition, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2001

• Editorial: "Fascism Triumphant?", Political Theology Journal (2009), by Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl (Article Included)

• Recognize Difference Between Two Islams, Opinion by Khaled Abou El Fadl, UCLA Today

Part of the challenge that both Muslims and non-Muslims confront is to develop a coherent way of speaking about the differences between what we intuitively know to be the mainstream of Islam and another form of Islam that shocks and disturbs a lot of people.

Published Article: "The Language of the Age: Shari'a and Natural Justice in the Egyptian Revolution," Harvard International Law Journal, April 2011

EXCERPT: "...In short, the Egyptian Revolution marks the return to a long-rooted humanistic tradition in Islam in which religion plays a prominent role in civil society, but without suffocating and dominating it..."

The Death Penalty, Mercy and Islam: A Call for Retrospection

• Article: "The Modern Ugly and the Ugly Modern Ugly: Reclaiming the Beautiful in Islam" by Khaled Abou El Fadl

"The Modern Ugly and the Ugly Modern: Reclaiming the Beautiful in Islam" in the book "Progressive Muslims," edited by Omid Safi (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2003) pp. 33 – 77)

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