Behnam Sadeghi

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Behnam Sadeghi (born September 16, 1969) is a scholar of Islamic law and history. He was assistant professor of religious studies at Stanford University from 2006 to 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Sadeghi received his PhD in 2006 from Princeton University. [5] 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. [2]

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