Behnam Sadeghi (born September 16, 1969) is a scholar of Quranic studies, Islamic law and Islamic history. He was assistant professor of religious studies at Stanford University from 2006 to 2016. (Archives of the faculty bulletin from subsequent years do not list his name)
Biography Sadeghi received his PhD in 2006 from Princeton University. 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, 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 TraditionReviews of The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition:
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
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
Sadeghi, B. (2013) Criteria for Emending the Text of the Qur’ān. In: Cook, M., Haider, N., Rabb, I., Sayeed, A. (eds) Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137078957_2.
See also Ahmed El Shamsy Walid Saleh
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