Christopher MelchertChristopher Melchert is a Professor of Arabic and Islam at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, 9th-10th Centuries C.E (Brill, 1997), Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Makers of the Muslim World) (Oneworld, 2006) ad Hadith, Piety, and Law: Selected Studies (Lockwood, 2015) Read More Read Less