Who is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States, Joseph Wambaugh or Helen Zahavi?
Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists.
Joseph Schacht Joseph Franz Schacht (born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969) was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose "Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence" (1950) is still considered a centrally important work on the subject. The author of many articles in the first and second editions of the "Encyclopaedia of Islam", Schacht also edited the second edition of "The Legacy of Islam" for the "Legacy" series of Oxford University Press and authored a textbook under the title "An Introduction to Islamic Law" (1964).