Behnam Sadeghi

Mahdi Visiting Research Fellow (Fall 2018)

Behnam Sadeghi researches the history of Islamic thought in areas such as jurisprudence, gender, theology, and scriptures. He is the author of a book on philosophy of law: The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He also has publications on the early history of the Qur’an and the Hadith. He has taught courses on gender, political Islam, Islamic history, Islamic law, Islamic theology, history of moral theory, virtue ethics, social theory, method in the social versus natural sciences, and theory in the study of religion.