Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Baylor University
Waco
TX
76712
United States
ABOUT
SeyedAmirHossein Asghari is a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Religion at Baylor University. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests include natural law, Islamic Intellectual tradition, Sufism, interpretation of religion, and interfaith understanding. He has taught at Indiana and Butler Universities and published on Sufism, Sacred and Secular Science, Islamic Philosophy, Shia Islam, and Comparative religions
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Modern
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Balkans
Islamic World
Specialties
Inter-religious Understanding
Islamic Studies, Shia Studies, Islamic Philosophy,
Sufism
Languages
Albanian (advanced)
English (advanced)
Turkish (advanced)
Persian (native)
Bulgarian (elementary)
French (intermediate)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
| Indiana University
Abstracts
The Maktab-i Tafk?k and Its Opponents in the Contemporary Sh?’a Seminary in Iran
Utopia among the Shi'a Philosophers: Tabataba'i on Governance
Q??? Tabataba’i as a (Hidden) Sufi Master in the Shi?a Seminary
Ontology and Cosmology of the Aql(Intellect) in Sadra’s Commentary on Usul al-Kafi
Sufism in the contemporary Shia Seminary, Studies on Shaykh Muhammad Bahari
Presence, Manifestation, and Visitation in Abrahamic Religions: The Notion of “Presence” in Shi’ism
Beyond Jurisprudence: Imagination as a Catalyst in Shia Political Philosophy
