Wael Hallaq
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Scholar of Islam
Wael Hallaq's Degrees
- PhD Islamic Studies University of Washington
- Masters Islamic Studies University of Washington
- Bachelors Islamic Law University of Jordan
Why Is Wael Hallaq Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he has been teaching ethics, law, and political thought since 2009. He is considered a leading scholar in the field of Islamic legal studies, and has been described as one of the world's leading authorities on Islamic law.
Wael Hallaq's Published Works
Published Works
- Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? (1984) (345)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories (1997) (216)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul al-fiqh (1997) (215)
- Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law (2001) (148)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law (2004) (147)
- Sharī'a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (2009) (127)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories by Wael B. Hallaq (1997) (108)
- Was al-Shafiʿi the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence? (1993) (105)
- An Introduction to Islamic Law (2009) (85)
- From Fatwās To Furü: Growth and Change in Islamic Substantive Law (1994) (83)
- The qāญī's dīwān (sijill) before the Ottomans (1998) (79)
- Model ShurūṬ Works and the Dialectic of Doctrine and Practice (1995) (79)
- On the origins of the controversy about the existence of muhtahids and the gate of ijtihad (1986) (74)
- Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians (1993) (70)
- The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament (2012) (67)
- The authenticity of prophetic Hadïth: a pseudo-problem (1999) (66)
- Restating Orientalism (2018) (49)
- FROM REGIONAL TO PERSONAL SCHOOLS OF LAW? A REEVALUATION (2001) (43)
- CALIPHS, JURISTS AND THE SALJŪQS IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF JUWAYN? (1984) (40)
- Juristic Authority vs. State Power: The Legal Crises of Modern Islam* (2004) (33)
- A TENTH‐ELEVENTH CENTURY TREATISE ON JURIDICAL DIALECTIC (1987) (32)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: The formative period (1997) (27)
- Non-Analogical Arguments in Sunni Juridical Qiyās (1989) (25)
- The Logic of Legal Reasoning in Religious and Non-Religious Cultures: The Case of Islamic Law and the Common Law (1985) (23)
- The Development of Logical Structure in Sunni Legal Theory (2019) (22)
- Sharīʿa: Property and ownership (2009) (20)
- What is Shari “a? (2005) (15)
- Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam (1995) (15)
- Islamic temperature methods of soul interruption (mental health symptoms) (2018) (15)
- "Muslim Rage" and Islamic Law (2002) (14)
- Tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literature : essays in honor of professor Issa J. Boullata (2000) (13)
- From Fatwās to Furūʿ: Growth and Change in Islamic Substantive Law@@@From Fatwas to Furu: Growth and Change in Islamic Substantive Law (1994) (13)
- Groundwork of the Moral Law: A New Look at the Qur'ān and the Genesis of Sharī'a (2009) (12)
- Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha (2019) (12)
- Encyclopedia of Islamic Law: A Compendium of the Major Schools , adapted by Laleh Bakhtiar. Introduction by Kevin Reinhart. 663 pages, glossary, index. Chicago: KAZI Publications, 1995. $39.95 (Paper) ISBN 1-56744-498-9 (1997) (11)
- USŪL AL-FIQH: BEYOND TRADITION (1992) (10)
- Islamic law: history and transformation (2010) (10)
- Logic, Formal Arguments and Formalization of Arguments in Sunni Jurisprudence (1990) (10)
- Maqasid and the Challenges of Modernity (2011) (10)
- Considerations on the Function and Character of Sunnī Legal Theory@@@Considerations on the Function and Character of Sunni Legal Theory (1984) (8)
- Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams (1991) (8)
- On Orientalism, Self-Consciousness and History (2011) (8)
- Symposium on religious law: Roman Catholic, Islamic, and Jewish treatment of familial issues, including education, abortion, in vitro fertilization, prenuptial agreements, contraception, and marital fraud. (1993) (7)
- Notes on the Term qarīna in Islamic Legal Discourse@@@Notes on the Term qarina in Islamic Legal Discourse (1988) (7)
- QIY AS: A STUDY IN ISLAMIC LOGIC (2007) (7)
- Reforming Modernity (2019) (6)
- Qur’ānic Constitutionalism and Moral Governmentality: Further Notes on the Founding Principles of Islamic Society and Polity (2014) (6)
- The Gate of ijtihad : a study in Islamic legal history (1983) (5)
- Pre-Islamic Background and Early Development of Jurisprudence (2016) (5)
- The formation of Islamic law (2016) (5)
- Murder in Cordoba : Ijihâd, Iftâ and the evolution of substantive law in Medieval Islam (1994) (4)
- Qāḍīs communicating: legal change and the law of documentary evidence (2019) (3)
- The Birth-Hour of Muslim Law?: An Essay in Exegesis (2016) (3)
- Sharīʿa: Modernizing the law in the age of nation-states (2009) (2)
- Family law and succession (2009) (2)
- Colonizing the Muslim world and its Shariʿa (2009) (2)
- ‘God cannot be harmed’ (2019) (2)
- Against the Greek Logicians (1995) (2)
- The Islamic Concept of Justice, by Majid Khadduri. xvi + 256 pages, appendix, glossary, select bibliography, index. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1984. $25.00. (1985) (2)
- Early ijtihād and the later construction of authority (2001) (1)
- An Introduction to Islamic Law: Jurists, legal education and politics (2009) (1)
- Review: The Formation of Hanbalism: Piety into Power Nimrod Hurvitz The Formation of Hanbalism: Piety into Power (2004) (1)
- Sharīʿa: The conceptual framework: an introduction (2009) (1)
- Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law: The jurisconsult, the author–jurist, and legal change (2001) (1)
- Introduction: Issues and Problems (1996) (1)
- The legal schools (2009) (1)
- Sharīʿa: Law and society (2009) (1)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: A ResponseBy Wael B. Hallaq (2008) (1)
- Bernard G. Weiss, The Search for God's Law: Islamic Jurisprudence in the Writings of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992). Pp. 772. (1994) (1)
- Shariʿa then and now: concluding notes (2009) (1)
- Legal theory: epistemology, language and legal reasoning (2009) (1)
- KAMALI, MUHAMMAD HASHIM, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, revised edition (Cambridge: Islamic Texts society, 1991), xxi+417 pp. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Cloth. £ 35.00/$ 49.95. (1995) (1)
- Muslims lands in the third/ninth century (2004) (0)
- Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law: Taqlīd : authority, hermeneutics, and function (2001) (0)
- A short review cannot do justice to such an august book as it comes at the peak of the intellectual maturity of two of the most phenomenal Islamicists (2019) (0)
- The articulation of legal theory: I (1997) (0)
- American Society for Legal History (2007) (0)
- Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law: Operative terminology and the dynamics of legal doctrine (2001) (0)
- Sharīʿa: Hegemonic modernity: the Middle East and North Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2009) (0)
- An Introduction to Islamic Law: Suggested further reading (2009) (0)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: The articulation of legal theory: II (1997) (0)
- Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law: The rise and augmentation of school authority (2001) (0)
- Wael B. Hallaq, A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul al-Fiqh , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 294. $98.95 (ISBN 0–860784568). (1999) (0)
- The early judges, legal specialists and the search for religious authority (2004) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: The pre-Islamic Near East, Muḥammad and Quranic law (2004) (0)
- The sweep of modernity (2009) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: Law and politics: caliphs, judges and jurists (2004) (0)
- The Light of Islam The Light of Islam Q Ā D Ī ’S D Ī W Ā N ACTIVITIES IN ISLAM (THE 10TH-13TH SUBJECT: Q D ’S D W N ACTIVITIES IN ISLAM (THE 10TH-13TH CENTURIES) CENTURIES) (2020) (0)
- Two Legal Problems Bearing on the Early History of the Qur'ān (2016) (0)
- PAUL R. POWERS Intent in Islamic Law: Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunnī Fiqh, Studies in Islamic Law and Society (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006). Pp. 248. $115.00 cloth (2007) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: Prophetic authority and the modification of legal reasoning (2004) (0)
- Sharīʿa: Contents of substantive legal works (2009) (0)
- Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law: Preface (2001) (0)
- An Introduction to Islamic Law: The law in the age of nation-states (2009) (0)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: Social reality and the response of theory (1997) (0)
- Sharīʿa: Legal education and the politics of law (2009) (0)
- Courts of justice, suits and evidence (2009) (0)
- Who's who in the Shariʿa (2009) (0)
- Uṣūl al-Fiqh and Shāfiʿī’s Risāla Revisited (2019) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: Short biographies (2004) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: Arabia ca. 622 ad (2004) (0)
- An Introduction to Islamic Law: State, ulama and Islamists (2009) (0)
- Pre-modern governance: the Circle of Justice (2009) (0)
- JACKSON, SHERMAN A. Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. Pp. xlii + 249. ISBN: 90-04-10458-5. $ 90.00. (1998) (0)
- Suggested Further Reading (2019) (0)
- In Pursuit of a Common Paradigm : Islamic and Western Ḥadīṯ Studies (2017) (0)
- Quranic Magna Carta: on the origins of the rule of law in Islam (2015) (0)
- Montclair State University Digital Montclair State University Digital Commons Commons Rashid Rid ā and Maq ā sid al-Shar ī 'a Rashid Rid and Maq sid al-Shar 'a (2022) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: Bibliography (2004) (0)
- Legal theory expounded (2004) (0)
- Glossary of Key Terms (2021) (0)
- The formation of legal schools (2004) (0)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: References (1997) (0)
- Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law: Juristic typologies: a framework for enquiry (2001) (0)
- ARKOUN, MUHAMMAD, Min al-Ijtihād ilā Naqd al-ʿAql al-Islāmī. Trans. Hāshim Ṣāliḥ. London, Dār al-Sāqī, 1993. Pp. 110. Paper. (1995) (0)
- Colin Imber, Ebu's-su ‘ud: The Islamic Legal Tradition , Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 288. $49.50 (ISBN 0-8047-2927-1). (1999) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: Suggested further reading (2004) (0)
- Sharīʿa: The jural colonization of India and South-East Asia (2009) (0)
- Sharīʿa: Repercussions: concluding notes (2009) (0)
- The Law: how is it found? (2009) (0)
- Shariʿa's society (2009) (0)
- Contracts and other obligations (2009) (0)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: Crises of modernity: toward a new theory of law? (1997) (0)
- UC Hastings Scholarship Repository "Muslim Rage" and Islamic Law (2015) (0)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: Conclusion (1997) (0)
- Sharīʿa: The Circle of Justice and later dynasties (2009) (0)
- The legal pillars of religion (2009) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: The emergence of an Islamic legal ethic (2004) (0)
- Christopher Melchert, The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th–10th Centuries C.E., Studies in Islamic Law and Society (Leiden, New York, Cologne, 1997). Pp. 272. (1999) (0)
- M. IZZI DIEN, The Theory and the Practice of Market Law in Medieval Islam: A Study of Kitab Nisab al-Ihtisab of ⊂Umar b. Muhammad al-Sunami (Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, 1997), Pp. 254. $99 cloth. (2000) (0)
- Dr. Hallaq Replies (1986) (0)
- Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law: Summary and conclusions (2001) (0)
- In search of a legal methodology (2009) (0)
- WHEELER, BRANNON M. Applying the Canon in Islam: The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Hanafī Scholarship. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 324. ISBN 0-7914-2974-1. Paperback, $ 22.95. (1998) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: Glossary of key terms (2004) (0)
- The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: The judiciary coming of age (2004) (0)
- A History of Islamic Legal Theories: The legal text, the world and history (1997) (0)
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