Peri J. Bearman (born 1953) is an academic scholar of
Islamic law. She was the Associate Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at
Harvard Law School. She is also currently the Editor-in-Chief and Islam section editor for the Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS).
(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
Harvard University Press, 2005. Harvard series in Islamic law, 2.
Peri Bearman, "Islamic Law: In the MENA Region," in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (editor-in-chief:
Peter N. Stearns), 4 vols., New York:
Oxford University Press, 2008.
senior editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (editor-in-chief:
Emad Shahin ), 2 vols., New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
(ed. with Rudolph Peters) The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law, Farnham, Surrey, UK:
Ashgate, 2014.