The Usuli Institute
Sharing excerpts & selections from Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl focused on elevating ethics, critical thinking & dignity rooted in the Islamic intellectual tradition
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The very people who invented the rules of war in modernity; the very academics, intellectuals and politicians who authored the Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of H...
Shortly after the death of the Prophet, the Muslim Ummah experienced a truly demonic moment that, in and of itself, could have been enough to destroy Islam forever. That moment was...
"...If someone asks, then, what is the purpose of our existence? We respond that the purpose of our existence is to be among the abrar (the pious). But how many of us will fulfill...
In the first Halaqa (Surah 57: Al Hadid) of our Project Illumine Quranic commentary series, Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl describes how this approach to the Qurβan is a methodology β a p...
What does monotheism teach you? It first teaches that if you submit to God, you submit to no one else. Your liberation as a human being is through God because if you submit to God,...