# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wael-hallaq
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:55.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wael-hallaq"
name: "Wael Hallaq"
slug: "wael-hallaq"
description: "Wael B. Hallaq is a Palestinian-American scholar of Islamic studies and the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he has been teaching ethics, law, and political thought since 2009. He is considered a leading scholar in the field of Islamic legal studies, and has been described as one of the world's leading authorities on Islamic law."
tagline: "Canadian scholar and writer on Islamic law and jurisprudence"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wael_hallaq.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.4648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wael Hallaq"
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    title: "Wael Hallaq"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump