| birth_place = Ratibor, Province of Silesia, German Empire
| nationality = British-German
| death_date =
| death_place = Englewood, New Jersey, United States
| occupation = Historian, academic
}}
Joseph Franz Schacht (, 15 March 1902 – 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 co-edited, with C. E. Bosworth, 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).
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