Christopher Melchert
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Christopher Melchert is an American professor and scholar of
Oriental Institute, and is a Fellow in Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford
.
Melchert received a
Sunni Schools of Law, with Brill Publishers, Leiden. Melchert more recently published a book on Ahmad ibn Hanbal
, the Sunni hadith-scholar and jurist.
Having written about whether women can be prayer leaders according to the early
Shii jurists, he is one of the few expert historians who has written authoritatively on the question.[1]
Selected publications
- The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E.[2] (Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 4). Leiden: Brill, 1997.[3]
- Reviewed by W. B. Hallaq in International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 2, (1999): 278-280
- Reviewed by P. Sanders in American Journal of Legal History 43, Part 1 (1999): 98[4]
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal.[5] Oxford: Oneworld, 2006[6] and 2012.[7] (in 116 World Cat libraries)[8]
- Before Sufism: Early Islamic Renunciant Piety
Academia
- The formation of the Ph.D thesis, University of Pennsylvania
- Religious Policies of the AD 847-908, in Islamic Law and Society, 1996 - Brill
- The transition from asceticism to mysticism at the middle of the ninth century AD, in Studia Islamica, 1996 - JSTOR
- The adversaries of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, in Arabica, 1997 - Springer
- Islamic law, in Oklahoma City University Law Review, 1998 - HeinOnline
- How
- Islamic Law, in Islamic Law and Society, 2001 - Brill
- The
- Iran, 2001 - JSTOR
- Various additional papers.[9]
References
- ^ a b "Whether to Keep Women out of the Mosque: A Survey of Medieval Islamic Law". Pages 59–69 in Authority, Privacy and Public Order in Islam: Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of l'Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants. Edited by B. Michalak-Pikulska and A. Pikulsi. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 148. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
- ^ "Al Tabari: A life dedicated to history and law". 20 February 2014.
- ISBN 978-9004109520.
- JSTOR 846146.
- ^ "Ibn Hanbal: The architect of a school of thought". 16 October 2014.
- ISBN 9781851684076.
- ISBN 9781780741987.
- ^ http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70173862&referer=brief_results [bare URL]
- ^ Melchert's additional works include:
- Bukhārī and Early Hadith Criticism, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001 - JSTOR
- The piety of the Hadith folk, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2002 - Cambridge University Press
- Qur'anic Abrogation Across the Ninth Century, in Studies in Islamic Legal Theory, 2002 - Brill
- Early Wiley Online Library
- The early history of Islamic law, Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins, 2003
- Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the Qur'an, in Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2004 - JSTOR
- The etiquette of learning in the early E. J. W. GibbMemorial Trust
- Baṣran Origins of Classical Sufism, in Der Islam, 2005 - De Gruyter
- The Six Books, in Der Islam, 2005 - De Gruyter
- Whether to Keep Women out of the Mosque: A Survey of Medieval Islamic Law, in UEAI 22, 2006 - Peeters Publishers[1]
- The Relation of the Ten Readings to One Another / العلاقة بين القراءات العشر, in Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2008 - JSTOR
- Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal's Book of Renunciation, in Der Islam, 2011 - De Gruyter
- List of recent publications, including three in 2011, one in 2012, four in 2013, five in 2014, four in 2015.
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