Dr Alessandro Cancian
Senior Research Associate

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Departments and units
Department of Academic Research Qur'anic Studies -
Email
acancian@iis.ac.uk
Cancian A., La scuola degli Imam: L’Iran e l’educazione religiosa nell’Islam sciita (Jouvence: Roma, 2016)
Cancian A.(Editor) Approaches to the Qur’anMuslims believe that the Holy Qur’an contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of 23 years in the early 7th century CE. More in Contemporary Iran (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Cancian A., The Emergence of Shi’i Sufism: Sulṭān ʿAlī Shāh Gunābādī and His Commentary on the Qur’an (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- “Sufi Mysticism and Usuli Shiʿism: Practical Authority in Modern Iranian Shiʿi Sufism” (in Sufi Mysticism and Usuli Shiʿism: Practical Authority in Modern Iranian Shiʿi Sufism, Brill, 2021)
- “In Between Reform and Bigotry: the Gunābādī Silsila in Two Early Twentieth-century Anti-Sufi works” (in Sufis and Mullahs: Sufis and their Opponents in the Persianate World, Irvine, 2020).