Ya'akov Meron
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Ya'akov Meron
It is our sad duty to report the death of Professor Ya'akov Meron
in Jerusalem on 16 April 2008. Meron was born in Tel Aviv on 8
March 1939. In 1957 he obtained a Certificate of Education (Advanced
Level) in England. In 1960 he earned a B.A. in Islamic and Middle
Eastern studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies (now the Institute
of Asian and African Studies), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
and in 1964 he took an M.A. in Oriental studies, including Turkish,
at the same Institute. His M.A. thesis was The Waqf in Palestine
under the Ottomans. In 1964 Meron took a degree at the Faculty
of Law, the Hebrew University, where he came under the influence
of Prof. Guiddo Tedeschi, one of the founders of Israeli law, and
of Prof. Menahem Elon, who would become Deputy President of
the Supreme Court. For his doctorate, Meron traveled to the Facult6
de Droit de Paris, where he studied under the supervision of Prof.
Chafiq Chehata. In 1968, he submitted a dissertation that was
published three years later as L'Obligation alimentaire entre epoux en
droit musulman hanefite. It was from Chehata-regarded by Meron
as Egypt's leading jurist, who established Islamic law as a scientific
discipline (see Introduction to Meron's 2000/1 monograph)-that
he learned to analyze Islamic legal doctrine in a historical and
systematic manner. He is best known for his path breaking article,
The Development of Legal Thought in Hanafi Texts, Studia Islamica
XXX (1969), 73-118, in which, inter alia, he challenged J. Schacht's
thesis regarding the closure of the gates of ijtihdd. Meron published
numerous articles on Islamic law, with special attention to legislation
and civil courts in the Israeli legal system. In 2001, he published
a monograph, Moslem Law in Comparative Perspective (Jerusalem:
The Magnes Press) [in Hebrew] based on his lectures at several law
school faculties (for a partial list of his publications, see there, pp.
261-2).
DOI: 10.1 163/092893809X12483327925736
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