Living Gratefully: Khaled Abou El Fadl opens up to Mona Siddiqui

Mona Siddiqui speaks to Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, and founder of the Institute for Advanced Usuli Studies. Professor El Fadl is one of the world’s leading scholars of Islamic law and ethics and in 2020, was the recipient of the American Academy of Religion, Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Here, he speaks of a home full of books, the influence of his mother’s strong faith and sense of ethics and his personal quest for beauty in the Islamic faith. 

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In a time like no other we have known before; a time when we are living closely with some, distantly from most others, this podcast series examines human relationships, how we form them and what they mean to us, against a background of what it means to feel gratitude.Our host, scholar and broadcaster Mona Siddiqui, asks the probing questions, and her guests – musician Ricky Ross, author Val McDermid, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams among others – open their hearts and minds. Living Gratefully examines how gratitude shapes our relationships with others, and how cultural relationships shape public discourse.