# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-schacht
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:48:14.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-schacht"
name: "Joseph Schacht"
slug: "joseph-schacht"
description: "Joseph Franz Schacht was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar in the areas of Islamic law and hadith studies, 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 co-edited the second edition of The Legacy of Islam and authored a textbook titled An Introduction to Islamic Law (1964)."
tagline: "German Islamic scholar (1902–1969)"
gender: "male"
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  isoCode: "GB"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1902-04-15"
deathDate: "1969-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump