Christopher Melchert

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Christopher Melchert is an American non-Muslim Islamic scholar, specialising in Islamic movements and institutions, ninth to tenth centuries C.E. He is University Lecturer in Arabic and Islam at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute, and is Fellow in Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Melchert graduated with a Ph.D. in History (1992) from the University of Pennsylvania.

[edit] Selected publications

  • "Whether to Keep Women out of the Mosque: A Survey of Medieval Islamic Law". Pages 59-69 in Authority, Privacy and Public Order in Islam: Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of l'Union EuropĂ©enne des Arabisants et Islamisants. Edited by B. Michalak-Pikulska and A. Pikulsi. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 148. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
  • Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
  • "Basran Origins of Classical Sufism", Der Islam 83 (2006): 221-40.
  • "The Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal: How It Was Composed and What Distinguishes It from the Six Books", Der Islam 82 (2005): 32-51.
  • "The Meaning of qala 'l-Shafi`i in Ninth-Century Sources". Pages 277-301 in `Abbasid Studies. Edited by James E. Montgomery. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 135. Leuven: Peeters, 2004.
  • "The Etiquette of Learning in the Early Islamic Study Circle". Pages 33-44 in Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of Professor George Makdisi. Edited by Joseph E. Lowry, Devin J. Stewart, and Shawkat M. Toorawa. (Warminster): E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2004.
  • "The Early History of Islamic Law", Pages 293-324 Methods and Theories in the Study of Early Islam, edited by Herbert Berg, forthcoming from Brill.
  • "The Piety of the Hadith Folk", International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (2002): 425-39.
  • "Quranic Abrogation Across the Ninth Century". Pages 75-98 in Studies in Islamic Legal Theory. Edited by Bernard Weiss. Islamic Law and Society, 15. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
  • "The Hanabila and the Early Sufis", Arabica 48 (2001): 352-67.
  • "Bukhari and Early Hadith Criticism", Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 (2001): 7-19.
  • "Ibn Mujahid and the Establishment of Seven Quranic Readings", Studia Islamica, no 91 (2000), 5-22.
  • "The Formation of The Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E.", Islamic Law and Society, vol.4, Edited by Ruud Peters and Bernard Weiss from Brill, 1997.

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