Wael Hallaq

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Wael B. Hallaq
Born	1955 Nazareth

Wael B. Hallaq (born in 1955) is one of the world’s leading scholars in Sunni jurisprudence and Islamic legal thought. ^[1][2] Hallaq is a James McGill professor of Islamic law at McGill University.

Dr. Hallaq gained considerable attention for his dissertation which refuted the common orientalist notion of the "closing of the gates of ijtihad".^{[citation needed]}

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Books

Shari'a. Theory, practice, Transformations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

• The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2005).

• The Formation of Islamic Law, ed. (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2004)

• Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? The Early Essays on the History of Islamic Legal Theories by Wael B. Hallaq,ed. and trans. Atsushi Okuda (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2003).

• Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2001),

• Literary Creativity and Social Change in Modern Arabic Literature, co-editor (Leiden: Brill, 2000).

• A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul al-Fiqh (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1997).

• Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam (Aldershot: Variorum, 1995).

• Ibn Taymiyya Against the Greek Logicians (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1993).

• Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams, co-editor (Leiden:E.J. Brill, 1991).

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