Abolfazl Moshiri

Abolfazl Moshiri is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, where he also serves as the senior research associate for the Women Poets Iranica Project at the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and in collaboration with Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation. His broad research areas include Iranian mysticism, antinomian and heterodox Sufism, and the intellectual history of the Persianate world from the 10th to the 16th century. He has also taught undergraduate courses on classical Persian literature and Islamicate culture at the University of Toronto. His publications appeared in journals such as Iranian Studies (2014), Iran Namag (2021), and the series Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600-1914 (2023). He is currently working on two separate chapters dealing with various aspects of heterodox Sufism in 13th and 14th century Iran and Anatolia.