Saudi businessman offers $10 million gift for Islamic center at Yale University of America

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Wednesday 09 Sep 2015 - 13:25 Makkah mean time-25-11-1436 (Image from internet) New Haven, US (IINA) - Yale University President Peter Salovey and Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post announced on Tuesday a $10 million gift to create the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the study of Islamic law and civilization at Yale Law School, according to Yale Law School News. This generous gift is from Abdallah S. Kamel, chief executive of the Dallah Albaraka Group, LLC, a banking and real estate enterprise based in Saudi Arabia. “Mr. Kamel’s extraordinary generosity will open up exciting new opportunities for Yale law school and for the entire university,” said President Salovey. “The Abdallah S. Kamel Center will enhance research opportunities for our students and other scholars and enable us to disseminate knowledge and insights for the benefit of scholars and leaders all over the world.” The center will bring prominent scholars of Islam to the Yale campus for public lectures, seminar discussions, visiting fellowships, and visiting professorships, attracting students from the Law School and other schools at the university to its lectures and other opportunities for collaboration. The gift to establish the center stems from an earlier gift to support the Dallah Albaraka lectures on Islamic Law & Civilization at Yale Law School. Under the direction of Law School Sterling Professors Owen Fiss and Anthony T. Kronman, the center will consist of the following components, a lecture series on Islamic law and civilization, research fellowships for fellows in residence at the Law School, visiting professorships, student fellowships for advanced studies, and professorship in Islamic Law. “The Abdallah S. Kamel Center will benefit the entire world. It will enable our students and faculty to form lasting connections with scholars and experts in the Middle East and elsewhere,” Dean Post noted. “It will make a vital contribution to the study of law at Yale and beyond.” SM/IINA