A lecture by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law, UCLA

Since the development of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) in 2014, there has been much debate within the media about whether ISIS is “Islamic” or not.  Stories about ISIS policies towards women and slavery and statistics of women leaving their home countries to join ISIS as “jihadi brides” have proliferated in the news media.  Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, who is one of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic law, will be analyzing the salient issues of ISIS’s enslavement of and trafficking in women in the context of the normative discourses of Islam and will demonstrate that ISIS ideology and practice is not only considered anathema in Islam, but directly contravenes the ethical pulse and purposes of Islamic law.

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and Chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA. He is the author of many books on Islam and Islamic law including Speaking In God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women(2001), The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (2005), and Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age (2014). 

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Duration: 01:07:16

Published: Wednesday, April 15, 2015