sheri

{{Infobox given name

| name = Sheri

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| pronunciation = Sheri

| gender = Female

| meaning = "beloved"

| region = French

| origin = French

| related names = Chari, Chéri, Cheri, Cherie, Cherri, Cherrie, Shari, Sherie, Sherri, Sherrie, Shery

| footnotes = [http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Sheri.htm Sheri - Meaning and origin of the name Sheri]

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Sheri is a female given name, from the French for beloved, and may refer to:

• Sheri Anderson, American TV writer
• Sheri Everts, American academic
• Sheri Forde, Canadian reporter
• Sheri Krams, American immunologist and academic administrator
• Sheri Graner Ray, video game specialist
• Sheri L. Dew (born c. 1954), Latter-day Saint leader
• Sheri Moon (born 1970), American actress
• Sheri Reynolds, author
• Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016), American author
• Sheri Sam (born 1974), American professional basketball player

Sheri is also a term appearing in older documents for Sharia law.{{cite journal|title=Corps de Droit Ottoman|journal=Law Quarterly Review|volume=21|publisher=Stevens and Sons|date=October 1905|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8jUbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA443 443]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=8jUbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA444 444]}} - Number LXXXIV "The religious law of the Sheri, of which the ultimate source is the Koran,[...]" - A review of Corps de Droit Ottoman It, along with the French variant Chéri, was used during the time of the Ottoman Empire, and is from the Turkish şer’(i).{{cite book |last=Strauss |first=Johann|chapter-url=https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/menalib/download/pdf/2734659?originalFilename=true |year=2010 |chapter=A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire: Translations of the Kanun-ı Esasi and Other Official Texts into Minority Languages | editor=Herzog, Christoph|editor2=Malek Sharif|title= The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy|location= Wurzburg|pages= 21–51 }} ([http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-91645 info page on book] at Martin Luther University) // Cited: p. 39 (PDF p. 41/338) // "“Chéri” may sound ambiguous in French but the term, used in our context for Islamic law (Turkish: şer’(i), is widely used in the legal literature at that time."