Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Biography
Abolfazl Moshiri is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. 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.
Abolfazl has been involved in several research projects, including e-Campus Ontario, where he developed online interactive modules for various courses in Islamic studies and Muslim civilizations to be offered across universities in Ontario. At the University of Toronto, he has also taught undergraduate courses on classical Persian literature and culture. His publications have appeared in Iranian Studies (2014), Iran Namag (2021), and Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600-1914 (2023).