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] 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.