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?
Helen Zahavi Helen Zahavi (born 1966) is an English novelist and screenwriter born and educated in London. Her father was sent to Britain with the Polish Army during the Second World War and her mother's parents came from Odessa. Before becoming a writer Zahavi worked as a Russian translator, and has spent several years living in Paris.
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).