Shi'i Islam and Sufism

Denis Hermann is Director of the Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) in Tehran and Associate Member of the Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS University of London. His research is mainly concerned with Qajar Iran Twelver Shi'ism and the Constitutional Revolution in Iran of 19061911. His most recent publication is Le shaykhisme à la période qajare: Histoire sociale et doctrinale d'une École chiite. Mathieu Terrier is a research fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. An historian of Islamic thought his research deals mainly with the relationship between Shi'i Islam philosophy and Sufism. His most recent publication is Histoire de la sagesse et philosophie shi'ite: L'Aimé des cœurs de Qu'b al-Dîn Ashkevarî. . Language: English