Oryantalizm ve Batı’da İslam Araştırmalarının Tarihî Seyri Üzerine Christopher Melchert ile Söyleşi

Year 2025, Volume: 15 Issue: 2, 699 - 714, 03.10.2025

Hafize Yazıcı

https://doi.org/10.26650/iuitd.2025.1641657

Abstract

Orientalism and the Historical Development of Islamic Studies in the West: An Interview with Christopher Melchert

Abstract

Christopher Melchert’s Academic Career and Contributions to Islamic Studies

Christopher Melchert worked as a professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Oxford University Oriental Institute and as a lecturer of Arabic at the University of Oxford, and he has also been a fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He retired from the University of Oxford at the beginning of October 2023. The academic career of Melchert, a prolific writer, focuses on the Islamic movements in the ninth and tenth centuries AD, and he publishes in many areas such as Islamic law, hadith, adab, and theology.

Christopher Melchert was born in Sendai, Japan, in 1955. Melchert’s bachelor’s degree was from the University of California at Santa Cruz, Department of History in 1977. Between 1978 and 1980, he studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo, and in 1983, he completed his master’s degree studies at Princeton University in the Department of History. In 1984, he moved from Princeton to the University of Pennsylvania. It was at U. Penn. that he saw students and marked essays as a Teaching Assistant. He wrote his dissertation on “The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E.,” under the supervision of Prof. George Makdisi.

Keywords

Orientalism and the Historical Development of Islamic Studies in the West , An Interview with Christopher Melchert , Interview

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