Christopher Melchert is an American

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 non-Muslim Islamic scholar, specialising in Islamic movements and institutions, ninth to tenth centuries C.E.

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  He is University Lecturer

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 in Arabic

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 and Islam

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 at the University of Oxford

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's Oriental Institute

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, and is Fellow in Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford

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

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Books

• Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. (in 116 World Cat libraries)
• The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E. ( Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 4). Leiden: Brill, 1997.
  • Review by W B Hallaq International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 2, (1999): 278-280
  • Review by P Sanders American Journal of Legal History43, Part 1 (1999): 98

Peer-reviewed Journal articles

• 2009
  • "Martyrdom in Islam". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 52, no. 2: 343-344. 2009
• 2008
  • "Encyclopedia of Canonical Hadīth". Islamic Law and Society. 15, no. 3: 408-411. 2008
• 2007
  • Melchert, Christopher. "Intent in Islamic Law. Motive and Meaning in Medieval Sunn̐ư". Islamic Law and Society. 14, no. 3: 425-427.2007
• 2006
  • "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 Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants. Edited by B. Michalak-Pikulska and A. Pikulsi. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 148. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
  • "Basran Origins of Classical Sufism", Der Islam 83 (2006): 221-40.
• 2005
  • "The Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal: How It Was Composed and What Distinguishes It from the Six Books", Der Islam 82 (2005): 32-51.
• 2004
  • "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.

• 2003
• 2002
  • "The Piety of the Hadith Folk", International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (2002): 425-39.
  • "Early Renunciants As Hadith Transmitters". The Muslim World; a Quarterly Review of History, Culture, Religions & the Christian Mission in Islamdom. 92, no. 3: 407. (2002)
• 2001
  • "Traditionist-jurisprudents (and the Framing of Islamic law" Islamic Law and Society, 8, no. 3 383-406 (2001)
  • "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.
• 2000
  • "Ibn Mujahid and the Establishment of Seven Quranic Readings", Studia Islamica, no 91 (2000), 5-22.
• 1999
  • "How Hanafism Came to Originate in Kufa and Traditionalism in Medina". Islamic Law and Society. 6, no. 3: 318-347.
• 1997
  • "The Adversaries of Aḥmad Ibn Ḥanbal". Arabica. 44, no. 2: 234-253. (1997)
  • "George Makdisi and Wael B. Hallaq". Arabica. 44, no. 2: 308-316. (1997)
• 1996

External links

• Melchert's Pembroke College page
• Melchert's Faculty page