Behnam Sadeghi

Biographic Data

ID4866844
NAMEBehnam Sadeghi
GIVEN NAMESBehnam
FAMILY NAMESadeghi
SIGNATURESADEGHI B
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
ORCID0000-0002-8721-0400
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts

    Behnam Sadeghi, Asad Q Ahmed et al.BOOKIslamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts2015

    This volume brings together articles on various aspects of the intellectual and social histories of Islamicate societies and of the traditions and contexts that contributed to their formation and evolution. Written by leading scholars who span three generations and who cover such diverse fields as Late Antique Studies, Islamic Studies, Classics, and Jewish Studies, the volume is a testament to the breadth and to the sustained, deep impact of the …

  • Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts

    Adam Silverstein, Asad Q Ahmed et al.BOOKIslamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts2014

    "This volume brings together articles on various aspects of the intellectual and social histories of Islamicate societies and of the traditions and contexts that contributed to their formation and evolution. Written by leading scholars who span three generations and who cover such diverse fields as Late Antique Studies, Islamic Studies, Classics, and Jewish Studies, the volume is a testament to the breadth and to the sustained, deep impact of the…

  • The Logic of Law Making in Islam

    Open AccessBehnam SadeghiBOOKLogic of Law Making in Islam2013

    This pioneering study examines the process of reasoning in Islamic law. Some of the key questions addressed here include whether sacred law operates differently from secular law, why laws change or stay the same and how different cultural and historical settings impact the development of legal rulings. In order to explore these questions, the author examines the decisions of thirty jurists from the largest legal tradition in Islam: the Hanafi sch…

  • The Islamic Scholarly Tradition

    M A Cook, Asad Q Ahmed et al.BOOKThe Islamic scholarly tradition2011

    The volume contains highly original articles on Islamic history, law, and thought, each either proposing new hypotheses or readjusting existing ones. The contributions range from studies in the formulation of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar to notes on the blood-money group in Islamic law, and to transformations in Arabic logic in the post-Avicennan period. Prepared by former students of Michael A. Cook, to whom this volume is dedicated, these s…

  • The Chronology of the Qurān

    Behnam SadeghiARTICLEArabica2011

    I verify a chronology in which seven groups of passages represent consecutive phases. A proposed chronology is verified if independent markers of style vary over its phases in a smooth fashion. Four markers of style follow smooth trajectories over the seven phases: The first is average verse length. The second encompasses the 28 most common morphemes in the Qurān. The percentages of these morphemes in a text constitute its stylistic profile. The …

  • The Codex of a Companion of the Prophet and the Qur'ān of the Prophet

    Uwe Bergmann, Behnam SadeghiARTICLEArabica2010

  • The Codex of a Companion of the Prophet and the Qurān of the Prophet

    Behnam Sadeghi, Uwe BergmannARTICLEArabica2010

    The essay discusses a manuscript of the Qurān dating from the first half of the seventh century AD. The text does not belong to the Utmānic textual tradition, making this the only known manuscript of a non-Utmānic text type. The essay compares this text type with those of the Utmānic and other Companion textual traditions in order to shed light on the Prophetic prototype

  • The Authenticity of Two 2nd /8th Century Hanafi Legal Texts

    Behnam SadeghiARTICLEIslamic Law and Society2010Cited by: 1

    The Kitāb al-āthar represents the lecture notes of two students of a single teacher who is alleged by the two students to be al-Shaybāni. These two attempted to write down in a verbatim fashion the traditions quoted by the teacher; however, when the teacher compared his views with those of other jurists, the students (or, at least, one of them) felt free to write down the comparisons in their own, personal styles. This discrepancy, I argue, confi…

  • The Travelling Tradition Test

    Behnam SadeghiARTICLEDer Islam2009

    The āthār are our main source for the study of the first 150 years of Islam. They constitute a voluminous literature with layers of early and late traditions from different cities, tribes, and sects. Determining the date and provenance of a report is a complex task that calls for the development of a variety of methods. This study presents a technique that should be added to the scholars' toolbox. It uses correlations between the contents of trad…