Wahhabi Islam never existed in pre-colonial world – Shaykh Khaled Abou el Fadl

Khaled Abou el Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law and Islamic studies at the University of California. He has lectured on and taught Islamic law in the United States and Europe in academic and non-academic environments since approximately 1990. Abou El Fadl holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic law from Princeton University. Abou El Fadl also has 13 years of instruction in Islamic jurisprudence, grammar and eloquence in Egypt and Kuwait. After law school, he clerked for Arizona Supreme Court Justice James Moeller, and practiced immigration and investment law in the U.S. and the Middle East. He previously taught Islamic law at the University of Texas School of Law at Austin, Yale Law School and Princeton University. This video describes the damage Najdi Wahabi-Salafi Beduin Islam has done to the Muslim world. The root of the harshness of Wahabi Salafi Islam is in their beduin Najdi characteristics. Why Islamophobes go nuts if you say Najdi Beduin Wahabi Islam doesnt represent mainstream Isalm. The pre-colonial Islam is Sufi Islam.

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