Wael B. Hallaq

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Wael B. Hallaq in his office at Columbia University (2016)

Wael B. Hallaq (born 1955 in Nazareth ) is an American scholar of Islam and law of Palestinian origin. He is a leading scholar in the field of Islamic law ( Sunnī uṣūl al-fiqh ) and Islamic intellectual history, as well as a figure of Islam in North America .

He received his PhD from the University of Washington . He taught as Professor of Islamic Law at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal , Canada . He is currently Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in New York . He is a well-known author with many contributions in the field of Islamic studies . He gained fame with his work Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? against the idea of closed gates of ijtihad . His works have been translated into several languages, including Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Turkish. In 2009 he was listed in the list of 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Prince al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Jordan . Hallaq is also artistically active.

Publications

  • The origins and evolution of Islamic law. (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). ISBN 0-521-80332-2 .
  • The formation of Islamic law. Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2004 (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World 27).
  • An Introduction to Islamic Law . (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). ( Online excerpt )
  • A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul Al-Fiqh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1997].
  • (Ed., With Donald Presgrave Little) Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams . Leiden: Brill, 1991.
  • Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law. (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  • Sharī'a: Theory, Practice, Transformations. (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
  • The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament (Columbia University Press, 2014; ISBN 978-0-231-16257-9 ) Partial online view .
  • Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. Vol. 16, No. 1, 1984, ISSN  0020-7438 , pp. 3-41, doi: 10.1017 / S0020743800027598 .
  • Law and legal theory in classical and medieval Islam, (Aldershot, UK; Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995) - contains reprints of twelve articles published between 1984 and 1993.
  • "Caliphs, Jurists and the Saljuqs in the Political Thought of Juwayni " in The Muslim World 74 (1984) 26-41.
  • "A Prelude to Ottoman Reform: Ibn 'Abidîn on Custom and Legal Change," in I. Gershoni et al. (Ed.): Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions. Lynne Rienner, Boulder & London, 2002. pp. 37-61.
  • "What al-Shafiʿi the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence?" in International Journal of Middle East Studies 25 (1993) 587-605. Reprinted in Hallaq: Law and Legal theory in Classical and Medieval Islam . Aldershot 1995.
  • Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek logicians / translated with an introduction and notes by Wael B. Hallaq (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 ( online ) - A translation of Jahd al-qarīḥah fī tajrīd al-Naṣīḥah (Against the Greek logicians), a short version of as-Suyūtī by Ibn Taimīyas Naṣīḥat ahl al-bayān fī al-radd ʻalá manaliq al-Yūnān ).

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Partial view
  2. ↑ "Closing the Gates of Ijtihad " ( Arabic انسداد باب الاجتهاد, insidād bāb al-idschtihād )
  3. ↑ The 500 Most Influential Muslims (2009, p. 98)
  4. ↑ 2009: 98
  5. ↑ cf. pinterest.com
personal data
SURNAME Hallaq, Wael B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallaq, Wael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scholar of Islam and law of Palestinian origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Nazareth