Christopher Melchert
}}Christopher Melchert is an American professor and scholar of Islam, specialising in Islamic movements and institutions, especially during the ninth and tenth centuries. A prolific author, he is professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute, and is a Fellow in Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford.
Melchert received a PhD in History (1992) from the University of Pennsylvania. His thesis was later published as a book, titled ''The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law'', with Brill Publishers, Leiden. Melchert more recently published a book on Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the Sunni hadith-scholar and jurist.
Having written about whether women can be prayer leaders according to the early Sunni and Shii jurists, he is one of the few expert historians who has written authoritatively on the question. Provided by Wikipedia
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Ahmad ibn Hanbal / by Melchert, Christopher
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The formation of the Sunni schools of law, 9th-10th centuries C.E. / by Melchert, Christopher
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Before Sufism : Early Islamic renunciant piety / by Melchert, Christopher
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Modern Hadith studies : continuing debates and new approaches /
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