Peri Bearman is a scholar of Islamic intellectual history and widely known as an editor of major works of scholarship on the Islamic Near East. She was editor, inter alia, of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the AOS journal (JAOS), monograph, and essay series. She is the author of A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (Lockwood Press, 2018) and co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law (Ashgate, 2014), The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shariʿa (I.B. Tauris, 2008), and The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress (ILSP, Harvard Law School, 2005).