Wael Hallaq

Career

Publications

• The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament .
• An introduction to Islamic law.
• Shari'a: theory, practice, transformations.
• The origins and evolution of Islamic law.
• 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.
• Authority, continuity, and change in Islamic law.
• A history of Islamic legal theories : an introduction to Sunnī uṣūl al-fiqh.
• Law and legal theory in classical and medieval Islam.
• Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek logicians / translated with an introduction and notes by Wael B. Hallaq.

• Themes in Islamic Law, 7 vols..

• The formation of Islamic law.
• Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams / edited by Wael B. Hallaq and Donald P. Little..
• Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature : Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata, edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek and Wael Hallaq .

• "Qur'anic Constitutionalism and Moral Governmentality: Further Notes on the Founding Principles of Islamic Society and Polity," Comparative Islamic Studies, 8, 1-2 : 1-51.
• "Groundwork of the Moral Law: A New Look at the Qur'ān and the Genesis of Sharī'a," Islamic Law and Society, vol.16 : 239-79.
• "Islamic Law: History and Transformation," The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4, ed. R. Irwin : 142-83.
• "What is Sharia?" Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, 2005–2006, vol. 12 : 151-80.
• "Juristic Authority vs. State Power: The Legal Crises of Modern Islam," Journal of Law and Religion, 19, 2, 101-116.
• "Can the Shari'a be Restored?" in Yvonne Y. Haddad and Barbara F. Stowasser, eds., Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity, 21-53.
• "'Muslim Rage' and Islamic Law," Hastings Law Journal, 54, 1-17.
• "The Quest for Origins or Doctrine? Islamic Legal Studies as Colonialist Discourse," UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, 2, 1, 1-31.
• "A Prelude to Ottoman Reform: Ibn 'Abidîn on Custom and Legal Change," Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, eds. I. Gershoni et al., 37-61.
• "Takhrij and the Construction of Juristic Authority," Studies in Islamic Legal Theory, ed. Bernard G. Weiss, 317-35.
• "On Dating Mâlik's Muwatta'," UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, 1, 1, 47-65.
• "From Geographical to Personal Schools?: A Reevaluation," Islamic Law and Society, 8,1, 1-26.
• "The Author-Jurist and Legal Change in Traditional Islamic Law," RIMO, 18, 31-75.
• "The Authenticity of Prophetic Hâdith: A Pseudo-Problem," Studia Islamica 89, 75-90.
• "Qadis Communicating: Legal Change and the Law of Documentary Evidence," al-Qantara, XX, 437-66.
• "The Qadi's Diwan before the Ottomans," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 61, 3, 415-36.
• "Introduction: Issues and Problems," Islamic Law and Society, 3, 2, 127-36.
• "Ifta' and Ijtihad in Sunni Legal Theory: A Developmental Account," in Kh. Masud, Brink Messick, and David Powers, eds., Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftîs and their Fatwas, 33-43.
• "Model Shurut Works and the Dialectic of Doctrine and Practice," Islamic Law and Society, 2, 2, 109-34.
• "Murder in Cordoba: Ijtihad, Ifta' and the Evolution of Substantive Law in Medieval Islam" Acta Orientalia, 55, 55-83.
• "From Fatwas to Furu': Growth and Change in Islamic Substantive Law" Islamic Law and Society, 1, 17-56.
• Co-author. Symposium on Religious Law: Roman Catholic, Islamic, and Jewish Treatment of Familial Issues, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal, 1, 16, 41f, 53f, 79f.
• "Was al-Shafi'i the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence?," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 4, 587-605.
• "Usul al-Fiqh: Beyond Tradition," Journal of Islamic Studies, 3, 2, 172-202.
• "Ibn Taymiyya on the Existence of God," Acta Orientalia, 52, 49-69..
• "The Primacy of the Qur'an in Shatibi's Legal Theory," in Wael B. Hallaq and D. Little, eds., Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams, 65-86.
• "On Inductive Corroboration, Probability and Certainty in Sunni Legal Thought," in Nicholas L. Heer, ed., Islamic Law and Jurisprudence: Studies in Honor of Farhat J. Ziadeh, 3-31.
• "Logic, Formal Arguments and Formalization of Arguments in Sunni Jurisprudence," Arabica, 37, 3, 315-358.
• "The Use and Abuse of Evidence: The Question of Provincial and Roman Influences on Early Islamic Law," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 110, 1, 79-91.
• "Non-Analogical Arguments in Sunni Juridical Qiyas," Arabica, 36, 3, 286-306.
• "Notes on the Term Qarina in Islamic Legal Discourse," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 108, 3, 475-80.
• "A Tenth-Eleventh Century Treatise on Juridical Dialectic," Muslim World, 77, 2-3, 198-227.
• "The Development of Logical Structure in Islamic Legal Theory," Der Islam, 64, 1,42-67. Reprinted in Islamic Law and Legal Theory, ed. Ian Edge .
• "On the Origins of the Controversy about the Existence of Mujtahids and the Gate of Ijtihad," Studia Islamica, 63,129-41. Persian translation by A. Kazemi-Moussavi, "Rishaha-yi Bahth dar Bara-yi Vujud-i Mujtahid va Bab-i Ijtihad," Tahqiqat-i Islami, 5, 1-2,123-34. Translated into Bahasa Indonesia by Nurul Agustini in Hikmat, 7, 43-54.
• "On the Authoritativeness of Sunni Consensus," The International Journal of Middle East Studies, 18, 4,427-54.
• "The Logic of Legal Reasoning in Religious and Non-Religious Cultures: The Case of Islamic Law and Common Law," The Cleveland State Law Review, 34, 1, 79-96. Reprinted in Comparative Legal Cultures, ed. Csaba Varga , 401-418.
• "Considerations on the Function and Character of Sunni Legal Theory," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 104, 4, 679-89.
• "Caliphs, Jurists and the Saljuqs in the Political Thought of Juwayni," Muslim World, 74, 1, 26-41.
• "Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed?" International Journal of Middle East Studies, 16, 1, 3-41. Reprinted in Islamic Law and Legal Theory, ed. Ian Edge ; Translated into Hebrew in Al-Jama'a, the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies, 8,118-68, with an introduction by Nimrod Hurvitz.

• The Encyclopedia of the Qurân. :
• *1. "Apostasy," vol. I, 119-22.
• *2. "Contracts and Alliances," vol. I, 431-35.
• *3. "Forbidden," vol. II, 223-226.
• *4. "Innovation," vol. II, 536-37.
• *5. "Law and the Quran," vol. III, 149-72.
• "Gazali as Faqih," Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. E. Yarshater, vol. 10, facs. 4, 372-74.
• The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. :
• *1. "Shart"
• *2. "Talfik"
• *3. "Zahir".
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. :
• *1. "Fatwa," vol. II, 649.
• *2. "Fiqh," vol. II, 666.
• *3. "Hadith," vol. II, 752.
• *4. "Hanafi Law School," vol. II, 771.
• *5. "Hanbali Law School," vol. II, 772.
• *6. "Maliki Law School," vol. III, 1157-58.
• *7. "Shafi'i Law School," vol. IV, 1629.
• *8. "Shari'a," vol. IV, 1638-39.
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 4 vols. :
• *1."Ahl al-Hall wal-'Aqd," vol. 1, 53-4.
• *2."Consensus," vol. 1, 312-4.
• *3."Faqih," vol. 2, 1.
• *4."Ijtihad," vol. 2, 178-81.
• "Al-Mantiq al-Usuli,", al-Mawsu'a al-Falsafiyya al-'Arabiyya , vol. II, pt. ii, 1289-95.