"Shari'a and the Challenge of Islamophobia" @ UCSD on 10/25/07

The Burke Lectureship Presents:

"Shari'a and the Challenge of Islamophobia"

with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl
UCLA School of Law

Thursday, October 25, 2007
8:00 PM
UCSD Price Center Ballroom B

FREE and OPEN to the Public

Shari'a has often become a news item in recent years when some extremist
group demands that the legal system of a country be replaced by Shari'a,
by which they are likely to mean a conception of Islamic law that
departs drastically from Western norms of democracy, civil liberties,
and the rights of women. Does this understanding of Shari'a accurately
represent what it means in the Islamic tradition? Has the American
public allowed the extremists' misconceptions to dictate our
understanding of Islam and Islamic law? The present lecture will provide
a wider and deeper perspective on the meaning of both.



Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law at
UCLA Law School, is the leading authority on Islamic law in the U. S.
and a major contemporary Islamic thinker. At UCLA he teaches Islamic
law, National Security law, Law and Terrorism, Immigration, Human
Rights, and International law. He previously taught Islamic law at the
University of Texas at Austin Law School, Yale Law School and Princeton
University. He holds degrees from Yale University (B.A.), University of
Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.) and Princeton University (M.A./Ph.D. in
Islamic Studies). Dr. Abou El Fadl received formal training in Islamic
jurisprudence in Egypt and Kuwait, earning the highest rank of mastery
among jurists. More>
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The Burke Lectureship is affiliated with the UCSD Center for the
Humanities < http://humctr.ucsd.edu/> and the Office of the Dean of Arts
and Humanities <http://dah.ucsd.edu/> , which are co-sponsors of this
lecture.

Other co-sponsors are the Program for Middle East Studies
<http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/MiddleEastStud.html > , the Department of
History <http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/> , and the Institute for
International, Comparative, and Area Studies < http://iicas.ucsd.edu/>

For further information about this event, please contact Professor Fred
Randel < mailto:%20frandel@ucsd.edu>

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