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

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. She was the associate director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at

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. She is also currently the editor-in-chief and Islam section editor for the ''

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. She was the Islamic Studies acquisitions editor at

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from 1990–1997 during which time she founded the journal ''Islamic Law and Society'', the reference works ''Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān'' and ''Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures'', the series Studies in Islamic Law and Society, and numerous other projects that came into being after her departure for Harvard. She was a member of the editorial board of the second edition of the ''

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31 ''Int'l J. Legal Info.'' 327 (2003)

Selected publications

* (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 ...

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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), 4 vols., New York:

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, 2008. * (ed. with Rudolph Peters) ''The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law,'' Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2014. * Peri Bearman,
A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam
', Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2018.

References

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