Joseph Schacht
British-German Islamic scholar (1902–1969) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joseph Franz Schacht (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːzɛf ʃaxt] ⓘ, 15 March 1902 – 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence (1950) is still considered a centrally important work on the subject. The author of many articles in the first and second editions of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Schacht also co-edited, with C. E. Bosworth, the second edition of The Legacy of Islam for the Legacy series of Oxford University Press and authored a textbook under the title An Introduction to Islamic Law (1964).
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Joseph Franz Schacht | |
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Born | (1902-03-15)15 March 1902 |
Died | 1 August 1969(1969-08-01) (aged 67) Englewood, New Jersey, United States |
Nationality | British-German |
Occupation(s) | Historian, academic |
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