Humanities in Iran (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004763296)

Majid Daneshgar is Associate Professor of Area Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He is a former Munby Fellow at the University of Cambridge and alumnus of Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). He has published Reconstructing Erpenius' Library (Brill 2024) and Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature (Gibb Memorial Trust and Edinburgh University Press, 2025).

Mohsen Feyzbakhsh completed his PhD in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Tehran. He has published in several leading academic journals including the Zygon Journal of Religion and Science, and has edited a special issue on "Method and Theory in Qur'anic Studies: Islamic Scholarship and Muslim Universities" as part of the Brill's Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (2021).

Azar Mirzaei completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She was also guest PhD candidate at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Mirzaei is Affiliated Researcher at Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Her research expertise lies on linguistics, politeness and early modern Persianate literature.

Sajjad Rizvi (PhD, Cambridge Univeristy, 2000) is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the University of Exeter. A specialist of Islamic intellectual traditions in the Safavid and Qajar periods and after and author among other works of Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics (Routledge, 2008), he is currently completing a monograph on Platonisms in Islam.

Contributors
Hanif Amin-Beidokhti, Paul Ballanfat, Jacob Barrett, Zohreh Bayatrizi, Alessandro Cancian, José Cutillas Ferrer, Majid Daneshgar, Timothy Davis, Dhivana Anarchia Ria Lay (Arsya Lay), Abbas Farasoo, Mohsen Feyzbakhsh, Amir-Mohammad Gamini, Caitlyn Georgiou, Michael Haugh, Janka Yanzhen Chen, Reyhaneh Javadi, Mostafa Khalili, Erfan Khosravi, Trevor J. Linn, Sarah Landry (née Griswold), Russell T. McCutcheon, Omid Mehrgan, Azar Mirzaei, A.C.S. Peacock, Sajjad Rizvi, Ehsan Roohi, Rowena Abdul Razak, Ariane Sadjed, S. Fatemeh Sajjadi, Amir Sheikhan, Iván Szántó, Meysam Tavakoli Bina, Anastasiya Titarenko, Mostafa Yavari-Ayin, Ali Reza Yunespour, and Bahman Zakipour.