# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laleh-bakhtiar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:48:37.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laleh-bakhtiar"
name: "Laleh Bakhtiar"
slug: "laleh-bakhtiar"
description: "Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar was an Iranian and American Islamic and Sufi scholar, author, translator, and psychologist. She produced a gender-neutral translation of the Quran, The Sublime Quran, and challenged the status quo on the Arabic word daraba, traditionally translated as \"beat\" — a word that she said has been used as justification for abuse of Muslim women. Her translation, published in 2007, was the first translation of the Quran by an American woman."
tagline: "Iranian academic (1938-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laleh_Bakhtiar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-07-29"
deathDate: "2020-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump