Behnam Sadeghi

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.

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. 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.