SeyedAmirHossein Asghari is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington. He will defend his dissertation “Philosophy and Sufism in the Contemporary Shia Seminary” in May 2022 and will join Baylor University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Inter-Religious understanding. 

His research interests include Islamic Intellectual tradition, interfaith dialogue, Sufism, interpretation of religion, and Middle Eastern languages and cultures. He published on Sufism, Religion and Science, Interfaith understanding, Sufism, Islamic Philosophy, Shia Islam, and Comparative religion. Some of his publications are available at Brill Journal of Sufi Studies, Journal of Religious and Theological Information, Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, and Journal of Islamic Shia Studies. He supervised and contributed to the first Persian, Albanian and English Dictionary. He has contributed to a number of his research projects on the Shii-Sufi interconnections with Dr. Hassan Ansari at Institute for Advanced Studies. 

SeyedAmir was a Future Faculty Teaching Fellow (FFTF) in 2021 to teach Modern Middle East and First-Year Seminar (faith, doubt, and reason) at Butler University (Indianapolis). He also taught Islam and the West and Quranic Studies at Indiana University. SeyedAmir has been received multiple fellowships and scholarships such as the Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Wonkai Lee Fellowship, and the Linda s. Walbridge Fellowship.