Wael B Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he has been teaching ethics, law, and political thought since 2009.
10 Facts About Wael Hallaq
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Wael Hallaq is considered a leading scholar in the field of Islamic legal studies, and has been described as one of the world's leading authorities on Islamic law.
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Wael Hallaq has published over eighty books and articles on topics including law, legal theory, philosophy, political theory, and logic.
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Wael 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.
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Wael 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.
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Wael Hallaq was born to a Palestinian Christian family in Nazareth in 1955.
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Wael Hallaq graduated from the University of Haifa, then he earned a masters degree and a Ph.
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Wael Hallaq's writings have explored the structural dynamics of legal change in pre-modern law, and have examined the centrality of moral theory to understanding the history of Islamic law and modern political movements.
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Professor Wael Hallaq's work is widely debated and translated, with several books and dissertations, and numerous articles, devoted to the study and analysis of his writings.
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In 2018, Wael Hallaq published Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge published by Columbia University Press.