Law
I am an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. I joined the Faculty in January 2006. I wrote my dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law while at the University of Chicago and received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Fadel was admitted to the Bar of New York in 2000 and practiced law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, New York, where he worked on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions and securities-related regulatory investigations. Professor Fadel also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Professor Fadel has published numerous articles in Islamic legal history and Islam and liberalism.
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Islam and a Political Theology of the Reasonable and the RationalThis is an ongoing project that attempts to respond to the political theologies of Karl Schmitt and Paul Kahn. It uses the Quranic theory of sacrifice as a counterpoint to Christian and Jewish conceptions of sacrifice to argue that Islam's conception of sacrifice -- in contrast to the superhuman or .. |