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Moshiri, Abolfazl

The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

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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 research associate and coordinator for the Women Poet Iranica Project at the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto in 2021. His broad area of research includes Persian mystical literature, antinomian and heterodox Sufism, and the intellectual history of the Persianate world from the 10th to the 16th century. At the University of Toronto, he has also taught undergraduate courses on classical Persian literature and culture. His publications have appeared in journals such as Iranian Studies (2014), Iran Namag (2021), and the series Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600-1914 (2023).