Behnam Sadeghi (born September 16, 1969) is a scholar of
Islamic law
Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah () is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic terminology ''sharīʿah'' refers to immutable, intan ...
and
history
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. He was assistant professor of religious studies at
Stanford University
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from 2006 to 2016.
Biography
Sadeghi received his PhD in 2006 from
Princeton University
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.
His doctoral dissertation investigated textual interpretation methods used in the
Hanafi school of law during the pre-modern period. He has conducted research on the early history of the
Qur'an
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ('' Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides ...
,
hadith literature, and early legal debates about women in the public sphere.
Works
* ''The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition''
[Reviews of ''The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition'':
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* Young, Walter E. "The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition." The Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 136, no. 1, January-March 2016, pp. 227+. Gale Academic
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* Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 49, No. 1 (FEBRUARY 2015), pp. 99-101
* Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2014), pp. 216-217
* Journal of Qur'anic Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2015), pp. 141-144
* Arabica, T. 62, Fasc. 4 (2015), pp. 571-576
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See also
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Ahmed El Shamsy
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Walid Saleh
Walid Ahmad Saleh is a Lebanese scholar of Quranic exegesis and a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Toronto.
His work explores the Qur'an, the history of Qur'anic interpretation, the Arabic manuscript tradition, Islamic apocaly ...
References
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Stanford University faculty
Living people
Princeton University alumni
Scholars of Islamic jurisprudence
1969 births
Quranic studies academics