Peri J. Bearman (born 1953) is an academic scholar of Islamic law. 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 ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' (JAOS).

Life

Peri Bearman took degrees in

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and Islamic Studies from the University of Leiden. She worked for Brill Publishers as the senior editor for the Middle East, and was a member of the editorial board of the second edition of the '' Encyclopaedia of Islam''.Faculty - Speaker Biographies
31 ''Int'l J. Legal Info.'' 327 (2003)

Selected publications

* (ed. with Th. Bianquis,

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, E. van Donzel,

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) ''Encyclopædia of Islam'', 2nd edition., 12 vols. and one vol. index, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1960–2005 * (ed.) ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new edition. Index of subjects'', Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1993-. * (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 and Bernard G. Weiss) ''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:

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), 4 vols., New York:

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, 2008. * senior editor, ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics'' (editor-in-chief:

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), 2 vols., New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. * (ed. with Rudolph Peters) ''The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law,'' Farnham, Surrey, UK:

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, 2014. * Peri Bearman,
A History of the'' Encyclopaedia of Islam
Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2018.

References

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