Wael B. Hallaq | |
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وائل حلّاق | |
Born | 1955 (age 68–69) |
Nationality | Palestinian[1] |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Professor of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history |
Employer | Columbia University |
Notable work |
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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.[2] He is considered a leading scholar in the field of Islamic legal studies,[3][4][5][6] and has been described as one of the world's leading authorities on Islamic law.[7]
He has published over eighty books and articles on topics including law, legal theory, philosophy, political theory, and logic.[8][7] In 2009, John Esposito and his review panel included Hallaq in a list of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world for his research and publications on Islamic law,[7] although Hallaq is Christian.[9]
Hallaq gained prominence for his doctoral work challenging the notion of the so-called "the closing of the gate of ijtihad," a narrative that was for long accepted in the field as paradigmatic. The narrative posited that Muslim jurists of the post formative period abandoned creative legal reasoning, this leading to a generalized stagnation of the law. Hallaq further argued that this narrative was a product of colonial discourse that attempted to justify the colonization of Muslim lands and the destruction of indigenous Muslim legal institutions.[10]
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