The search for beauty in islam. A conference of the books

Khaled Abou El Fadl is a classically-trained Islamic jurist, an American lawyer and law professor, and one of the most important Islamic thinkers today. In this updated and expanded edition of The Search for Beauty in Islam, Abou El Fadl offers eye-opening and enlightening insights into the contemporary realities of the current state of Islam and the West. Through an imagined conference of Muslim intellects from centuries past, Abou El Fadl examines the ugliness that has come to plague Muslim realities, and attempts to reclaim what he maintains is a core moral value in Islam—the value of beauty.
In this updated edition, topics such as marriage, divorce, parental rights, the position of women, the veil, sexual abuse, wife-beating, terrorism, bigotry, morality, law, and the role of tradition are considered through a post-9/11 lens. Abou El Fadl argues that the rekindling of the forgotten value of beauty is essential for Muslims today if they wish to recover what has been lost to the fundamentalist forces that have denigrated their religion.