Professor M. A. Amir-Moezzi is a specialist of Shi’i Imami theology, Islamic mysticism and classical Persian poetry.
Since 1992, he has been the Professor of Islamic Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne University, Paris) and he is currently the holder of the prestigious chair “Exegesis and Theology”, occupied before him by L.Massignon, H.Corbin and D.Gimaret. He is the author of many books, including聽Le Guide divin dans le shi’isme originel聽(1992), (translated into English as聽The Divine Guide in Early Shi’ism: The Sources of Esotericism in Islam),聽Le voyage initiatique en terre d’islam : ascensions c’lestes et itin’raires spirituels听(1996),听Qu’est-ce que le shi’isme?聽(with C.Jambet, 2004) and聽La religion discr’te :croyances et pratiques spirituelles dans l’Islam shi’ite听(2006).
