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.
Author Biography:
DR. KHALED ABOU EL FADL is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, and founder of the Institute for Advanced Usuli Studies (The Usuli Institute). He is a classically trained Islamic jurist. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Islam and Islamic jurisprudence. Among his books are: Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books, Speaking in God's Name: Islamic law, Authority and Women, And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses, The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists, and Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2020 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. DR. JOSEF LINNHOFF holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. His work has been published in The Muslim World, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, and Critical Muslim. He is Editor-in-Chief of Project Illumine: The Light of the Quran, a multi-year project at The Usuli Institute to publish the first English-language Qur'anic commentary in over forty years. Before joining The Usuli Institute, he worked as a Researcher for BBC Monitoring in London.
