Joseph Schacht, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Schacht

Islamic scholar

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1902

Place of Birth: Racibórz, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Aug-1969

Profession: arabist, university teacher, Islamicist

Nationality: United Kingdom, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Joseph Franz Schacht (15 March 1902 – 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York.
He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence (1950) is still considered a centrally important work on the subject.
The author of many articles in the first and second editions of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Schacht also edited the second edition of The Legacy of Islam for the Legacy series of Oxford University Press and authored a textbook under the title An Introduction to Islamic Law (1964).