Prominent Early Orientalists in islamic Law, There is
exhausitve list. But these names you will usually find when reading English
materials in Islamic Law.
1.
Ignaz Goldziher (1850–1921), Hungary, Die Zahiriten (Leipzig
1884); Muhammedanische Studien (2 volumes,
Halle 1889-1890) [t] {vol.2 questions hadith}; Vorlesungen uber den Islam (Heidelberg
1910, 1925) [t]; Die Richtungen der islamischen Koranauslegung (Leiden 1920); well regarded Jewish scholar, admirer of
Islam, e.g., writing that he felt fulfillment when praying with Muslims in a Cairo mosque.
2.
Duncan Black MacDonald (1863–1943) Scotland; Hartford
Seminary in U.S.; Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory (New York
1903); The Religious Attitude and
Life in Islam (Chicago 1909).
3.
Leon Walerian Ostroróg, Comte (1867–1932) Poland, The Angora Reform (London 1927), on the "Law of Fundamental
Organization" (1921) of republican Turkey transferring
power from the Sultan to the Assembly; Pour la réforme de la justice ottomane (Paris 1912)
5.
Seymour Gonne Vesey-Fitzgerald (1884-19xx), Muhammadan Law, an abridgement, according to its various schools (Oxford Univ.
1931); The Iraq Treaty, 1930 (London 1932).
6.
Josef Schacht (1902–1969)
France (Alsace), Islamic legal history, Der Islam (Tübingen
1931); Origins of Muhammadan
Jurisprudence (Oxford 1950)
influential work, a legal historical critique (following, e.g., Goldziher) the
early oral transmission of Hadith &
founding jurists; Introduction to Islamic Law (Oxford 1964); Legacy of Islam (2nd ed.,
Oxford 1974) edited with C. E.
Bosworth.
7.
Henri Laoust (1905-1983)
France, Essai sur les doctrines
sociales et politiques de Taki-d-Din Ahmad
Taimiya, cononiste 'anbalite (Le Caire 1939); Le traite de droit public
d'Ibn Taimiya [al-Siyasah
al-Shariyah] (Beirut 1948); Le politique de Gazali (Paris 1970)
8.
Ann K. S. Lambton (1912-2008) English, State and Government in medieval Islam (1981); Continuity and Change in medieval Persia. Aspects of administrative,
economic and social history, 11th-14th century (1988)
9.
George Hourani (1913–1984) Lebanese English, Averroes. On the Harmony of
Religion and Philosophy (London 1961) annotated translation of Kitab fasl al maqal of Ibn
Rushd; Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics (Cambridge
Univ. 1985); Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in ancient and medieval times (Princeton
Univ. 1951, 1995).
10.
Noel J. Coulson (1928–1986)
U.K., Islamic
law at S.O.A.S., History of Islamic Law (Edinburgh Univ.
1964); Conflict and Tensions in
Islamic Jurisprudence (Univ.of
Chicago 1969); Succession in the Muslim Family (Cambridge Univ. 1971); Commercial Law in the Gulf
States: The Islamic Legal Tradition (Graham & Trotman 1984).
11.
Norman J. D. Anderson (1908-1994). He lectured on Islamic Law
for three years at Cambridge and then from
1947 to 1971 he taught at SOAS, being appointed Professor of Oriental Laws in
the University of London in 1954. He was the head of the Department of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 1953-71;
Professor of Oriental Laws, University of London 1954-75; Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in the University of London 1959-76.
