Wael Hallaq
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He has published over eighty books and articles on topics including law, legal theory, philosophy, political theory, and logic. 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, although Hallaq is Christian.
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. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [2018]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Published: [2019]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Published: 2000
Superior document: Collected studies series 474
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Published: 2001.
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Published: 2004
Superior document: The formation of the classical Islamic world 27
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Published: 1991.
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Published: 2000.
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Published: 2000.
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Published: [2022]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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