Dr. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsIslamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
KeywordsHeterodoxy, Mahdism, Messianism, Reformation, Syncretism

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
InstitutionThe Institute of Ismaili Studies
InstituteDepartment of Academic Research and Publications

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Sabine SchmidtkeInstitut für Islamwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2009

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2013Orkhan Mir-Kasimov (ed.): Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam. Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
2011Hassan Ansari Daniel De Smet Kais Firro Wissam Halabi-Halawi Orkhan Mir-Kasimov Bruno Paoli Bella Tendler Krieger: Les Nuṣayris et les Druzes, deux communautés ésotériques à la périphérie doctrinale de l’islam, [Proceedings of the workshop, Institute of Advanced Studies (Nantes) – CNRS (Paris), June 18-19] special issue of the Arabica journal Nr. 58/1-2. Brill, 2011
2009Orkhan Mir-Kasimov: Le “ Journal des rêves” de Faḍlallāh Astarābādī édition et traduction annotée. In: Studia Iranica, 2009, 249-304
2009Orkhan Mir-Kasimov: Study of the Early Ḥurūfī Texts: the foundational work of Faḍlallāh Astarābādī. In: Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, 2009, 246-260
2008Orkhan Mir-Kasimov: Jāvdān-nāma. In: Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 14/6, p. 603-605. Columbia University, 2008. 603-605
2008Orkhan Mir-Kasimov: Some Specific Features of the Ḥurūfī Interpretation of the Qur'anic and Biblical Episodes Related to Moses. In: Journal of Qur’anic Studies , 2008, 21-49
2007Orkhan Mir-Kasimov: Les dérivés de la racine RḤM: Homme, Femme et Connaissance dans le Jāvdān-nāme de Faḍlallāh Astarābādī. In: Journal Asiatique , 2007, 9-33
2006Orkhan Mir-Kasimov: Deux textes ḥurūfī: Jāvdān-nāme de Faḍlallāh Astarābādī et l’un de ses commentaires, Maḥram-nāme de Seyyid Isḥāq. In: Studia Iranica , 2006, 203-235