{"id":5964,"date":"2015-09-12T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2015-09-12T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T10:10:11","slug":"saudi-businessman-gives-10m-for-islamic-law-center-at-yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/saudi-businessman-gives-10m-for-islamic-law-center-at-yale\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi businessman gives $10M for Islamic law center at Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Yale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5965\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Yale.jpg\" alt=\"Yale\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>A $10 million gift from a Saudi businessman will establish a center for the study of Islamic law at Yale Law School.<br \/>\nAbdallah S. Kamel, chief executive of the Dallah Albaraka Group banking and real estate enterprise in Saudi Arabia, made the award after meetings with university representatives including Yale President Peter Salovey.<br \/>\nYale officials say the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization reflects a growing interest at Yale and other institutions in Islamic law, history and culture.<br \/>\nProfessor Anthony Kronman, a co-director of the center, said Yale aims to have the best program of its kind in the United States.<br \/>\nFor two decades, Harvard Law School has had its own Islamic legal studies program, established with support from the Saudi king.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/saudi-businessman-gives-10m-for-islamic-law-center-at-yale\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $10 million gift from a Saudi businessman will establish a center for the study of Islamic law at Yale Law School. Abdallah S. Kamel, chief executive of the Dallah Albaraka Group banking and real estate enterprise in Saudi Arabia, made the award after meetings with university representatives including Yale President Peter Salovey. Yale officials &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}