Peri J. Bearman (born 1953) is an academic scholar of

Islamic law Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the ...

. She was the Associate Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each c ...

. She is also currently the Editor-in-Chief and Islam section editor for the ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' (JAOS).

Life

Peri Bearman took degrees in

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...

and

Islamic Studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

from the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

. She worked for

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as the senior editor for the

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, and was a member of the editorial board of the second edition of the ''

Encyclopaedia of Islam The ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' (''EI'') is an encyclopaedia of the academic discipline of Islamic studies published by Brill. It is considered to be the standard reference work in the field of Islamic studies. The first edition was published ...

''.Faculty - Speaker Biographies
31 ''Int'l J. Legal Info.'' 327 (2003)

Selected publications

* (ed. with Th. Bianquis, C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel,

W. P. Heinrichs Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (3 October 1941 – 23 January 2014) was a German-born scholar of Arabic. He was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University, and a co-editor of the second edition of the ''Encyclopaedia of Islam''. He taugh ...

) ''Encyclopædia of Islam'', 2nd edition., 12 vols. and one vol. index, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960–2005 * (ed.) ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new edition. Index of subjects'', Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1993-. * (ed. with Rudolph Peters and Frank E. Vogel) ''The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress,'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School : Distributed by

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, 2005. Harvard series in Islamic law, 2. * (ed. with

Wolfhart Heinrichs Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (3 October 1941 – 23 January 2014) was a German-born scholar of Arabic. He was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University, and a co-editor of the second edition of the ''Encyclopaedia of Islam''. He taugh ...

and

Bernard G. Weiss Bernard G. Weiss (10 August 1933 – 8 February 2018) was a professor of languages and literature at the University of Utah. He has an extensive publication record and is recognized as one of the foremost scholars in Islamic law, Islamic theology ...

) ''The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a. A Volume in Honor of Frank E. Vogel'', London: I.B. Tauris, 2008. * Peri Bearman, "Islamic Law: In the MENA Region," in ''Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World'' (editor-in-chief:

Peter N. Stearns Peter Nathaniel Stearns (born March 3, 1936) is a professor at George Mason University, where he was provost from January 1, 2000 to July 2014. Stearns was chair of the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and also served as the ...

), 4 vols., New York:

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, 2008. * senior editor, ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics'' (editor-in-chief:

Emad Shahin Emad Shahin ( Also Emad El-Din Shahin, ar, عماد شاهين; born August 24, 1957) is an Egyptian professor of political science. He is currently a visiting professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is editor-in ...

), 2 vols., New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. * (ed. with Rudolph Peters) ''The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law,'' Farnham, Surrey, UK:

Ashgate Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom). It was established in 1967 and specialised in the social sciences, arts, humanities and professional practice. It had an American office in ...

, 2014. * Peri Bearman,
A History of the'' Encyclopaedia of Islam
Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2018.

References

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