Joseph Schacht
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 55 years ago |
Date of birth | March 15,1902 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Raciborz |
Poland | |
Date of died | August 1,1969 |
Died | Englewood |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Job | Professor |
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Educator | |
Books | An introduction to Islamic law |
origins of Mohammadan jurisprudence | |
De Arabieren en de Islam | |
The legacy of Islam | |
Graduate date | 1923 |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada |
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ID | 631099 |
Joseph Schacht Life story
Joseph Franz Schacht 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 is still considered a centrally important work on the subject.