Majid Khadduri

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Majid Khadduri

Majid Khadduri ( Maǧīd Ḫaddūrī * 27. September 1909 in Mosul , Iraq ; † 25. January 2007 in Potomac , Maryland ) was a native of today's Iraq American political and legal scholar , who is primarily concerned with the Middle East focused .

Life

After attending high school in his native Mosul, Khadduri began studying at the American University of Beirut in 1928 , which he completed in 1932 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed postgraduate studies in political science and international law at the University of Chicago , where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) in 1938 . He then took on a professorship at the Law and Higher Teachers College in Baghdad and taught there until 1947. In 1945, he took part as a delegate from Iraq to the assembly to establish the United Nations in San Francisco .

He then took on professorships at the University of Chicago and Indiana University Bloomington and was also committed to the Middle East Institute, founded in 1946 . In 1949 Khadduri was appointed professor at Johns Hopkins University , at whose Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies he taught until his retirement in 1980. At the same time, he was director of the Middle East Studies Program there until 1980 .

Over time, his book War and Peace in the Law of Islam, first published in 1941, made him an internationally recognized expert on Sharia law . In his numerous works he dealt in particular with subjects and people such as jihad , Faisal II , Islamic ethics , Mecelle , Musta'min , Shāfiʿites , the battle of Uhud and Siyar .

In 1983, in honor of Khadduri, who was awarded the Order of Merit of Egypt Second Class in 1979 , the Majid Khadduri Chair in Middle Eastern Studies was established at Johns Hopkins University with the support of the Government of Saudi Arabia .

“In the universal message of Islam as an all-encompassing mission of faith, every Muslim is charged with the continued effort to go to war - and not only strictly militarily, but also psychologically and politically. Accordingly, the jihad doctrine does not define itself as uninterrupted fighting, but as a permanent state of war. "

- Khadduri, War and peace in the law of Islam, p. 64

Publications

  • War and Peace in the Law of Islam , 1941, reprints 1955 and 2006, ISBN 978-1-58477-695-6
  • Independent Iraq, 1932-1958 , Oxford University Press, 1960
  • The Islamic Conception of Justice , Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984
  • Islamic Jurisprudence: Shafi'i’s Risala , Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society , 1987
  • War in the Gulf, 1990-91: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications , 1997
  • The Islamic Law of Nations: Shaybānī's Siyar , The Johns Hopkins University Press 2002. ISBN 0801869757
  • Law in the Middle East, Volume I: Origin and Development of Islamic Law , Associate Editor Herbert J. Liebesny, Lawbook Exchange, Clark, New Jersey 2008, ISBN 978-1-58477-864-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Majid Khadduri: The Different Kinds of Jihad
  2. ↑ War and Peace in the Law of Islam (excerpt in Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Khadduri, Majid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ha̮ddūrī, Maǧīd (different spelling of names)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scholar of Islam, politics, and law
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Mosul , Iraq
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2007
Place of death Potomac , Maryland