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Behnam Sadeghi
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “scholar of islamic law and history”. Today it says “scholar of quranic studies”.
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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. Just War in Religion and Politics . Stanford Religious Studies Bulletin 2015-2016 . 2015–2016 . (Archives of the faculty bulletin from subsequent years do not list his name) "Stanford Report: Comings & Goings" .
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scholar of islamic law and history
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scholar of quranic studies
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