Adeel is a first-year student at the Yale Law School. He is especially interested in civil liberties, Islamic law, and the way Muslim-Americans engage with American legal systems.
Adeel grew up in Southern California, and he graduated from the University of Southern California in 2014 with majors in biological sciences and religion, as well as minors in economics and Middle East studies. He then completed his master’s at the Harvard Divinity School in 2016 in Islamic studies. Adeel has studied various Islamic sciences in both traditional and Western academic contexts, and hopes to continue his traditional studies in the future.