Peri Bearman

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Peri J. Bearman (born 1953) is an academic scholar of Islamic law. She was the Associate Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. She is also currently the Editor-in-Chief and Islam section editor for the Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS).

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Life

Peri Bearman took degrees in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Leiden. She worked for Brill Publishers as the senior editor for the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and was a member of the editorial board of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam . [1]

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