Joseph Schacht
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 56 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.
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