Understanding Islamic Wills & Trust By Abed Awad

Abed Awad is a founding partner of Awad & Khoury, LLP located in Hasbrouck Heights,  New Jersey. His practice in the New Jersey / New York area focuses on estate planning,  including Sharia-compliant estate planning (Wills, Living Revocable Trusts, Irrevocable  Trusts, Special Needs Trusts, Charitable Foundations), Islamic prenuptial agreements,  international family law, Islamic law, and business law. Awad is AV rated by Martindale  and is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. Awad has native fluency  in Arabic and is an international expert in Islamic law and the laws of the Muslim  countries. 

 Awad was an adjunct law professor at Rutgers Law School Newark (2003-2020) and has  taught at Pace Law School and Seton Hall Law School. Courses taught include  Matrimonial Litigation, Islamic Banking & Finance, and Islamic Jurisprudence. Awad  was also a contributor and U.S. Editor for Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies  Program ShariaSource portal (2015-2019). Awad is the Founder & CEO of Shariawiz, the  most trusted online portal for Muslim-American estate planning and prenuptial  agreements. 

 As a frequent public speaker at bar associations, universities, conventions, and political  events, Mr. Awad lectures on subjects ranging from law, politics, gender, religion, and  culture internationally, and he has more than 200 television and radio appearances as a  political and/or legal commentator for numerous media outlets, including The New York  Times, ABC, CNN, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Al- Jazeera, BBC, NPR, Dream  TV, French 24 (Arabic), and Al-Arabia. Awad has also published extensively in various  publications, including The Star Ledger, Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, New  Jersey Law Journal, CNN.com, National Law Journal, North Carolina Lawyers  Weekly, and The Nation, among others.