Dr Orkhan Mir-Kasimov

Associate Professor
Biography Research Publications Teaching

  • Mir-Kasimov O., Words of Power: Ḥurūfī Teachings between Shiʿism and Sufism. The Original Ḥurūfī Doctrine of Faḍl Allāh Astarābādī. London and New York, I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, (Shiʿi Heritage, 3), 2015, 590 p.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., Christian Apocalyptic Texts in Islamic Messianic Discourse, Brill, (History of Christian – Muslim Relationships, 30), Leiden and Boston, 2017.

  • Mir-Kasimov O. (ed.), Intellectual Interactions in Islamic World: The Ismaili Thread, London, I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, (Shiʿi Heritage, 6), 2020.

  • Mir-Kasimov O. (ed.), Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam, Boston - Leiden, Brill (Islamic History and Civilization 105), 2013, 423p.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., Amir-Moezzi M.A., De Cillis M. and De Smet D. (eds.), Shiʿi Esotericism: Roots and Developments, Brepols, Turnhout, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies (UK) and École Pratique des Hautes Études (France), 2016.

  • Mir-Kasimov O. and De Smet D. (eds.), Les Nuṣayris et les Druzes, deux communautés ésotériques à la périphérie doctrinale de l’islam, thematic issue of the Arabica 58/1-2 (2011).

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Connaissance divine et action messianique : la figure de ʿAlī dans les milieux mystiques et messianiques (5ème/11ème - 10ème/16ème siècles)”, in M.A. Amir-Moezzi, Ali, Le secret bien gardé, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2020, pp. 325-352.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., ‘Victims or Rivals? The Persecution of the Ḥurūfīs and its Possible Reasons’, in L. Lewisohn and R. Tabandeh (eds.), Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World, Jordan Centre for Persian Studies, Irvin (CA), 2020, pp. 239-257.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “The Occult Sciences in Messianic Discourse: Science of Letters, Alchemy and Astrology in the Works of Faḍl Allāh Astarābādī”, in  N. El-Bizri and E. Orthmann (eds.), Occult Sciences in Pre-Modern Islamic Culture (Beiruter Texte und Studien 138), Orient Institut Beirut and American University of Beirut, Ergon Verlag, Beirut, 2018, pp. 201-221.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “‘Paradise is at the Feet of Mothers’: the Ḥurūfī Road”, in Islam, S. Günther and B.T. Lawson (eds.), Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter, 2 vols., Leiden – Boston, Brill (Islamic History and Civilization, 136), 2017, vol. 1, pp. 701-734.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Esoteric Messianic Currents Between Sufism and Shiʿism in 7th/13th -9th/15th Centuries,” in M.A. Amir-Moezzi, M. De Cillis, D. De Smet and O. Mir-Kasimov, Esotérisme shi’ite, ses racines et ses prolongements. Shiʿi Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments, Brepols, Turnhout, 2016. 

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Jesus as Eschatological Saviour in Islam: An Example of the ‘Positive’ Apologetic Interpretation of the Christian Apocalyptic Texts in an Islamic Messianic Milieu”, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 6 (2018), pp. 332-358.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “L’épistémologie et l’anthropologie mystique dans le Jāwidān-nāma-yi kabīr de Faḍlallāh Astarābādī (m. 796/1394) ”, Ishraq, Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, 5 (2014), pp. 332-351.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Historical Development of the Paradox of ‘Likeness’ between Divine and Human as Source of Religious Knowledge in Islam” (in Russian), Ishraq, Islamic Philosophy Yearbook, 3 (2012), pp. 331-352.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Techniques de garde du secret en Islam”, Revue de l’Histoire des Religions, 228/2 (2011), p. 265-287.
    “Le ‘Journal des rêves’ de Faḍlallāh Astarābādī: édition et traduction annotée”, Studia Iranica, 38/2, 2009, pp. 249-304.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Study of the Early Ḥurūfī Texts: the Foundational Work of Faḍlallāh Astarābādī”, Revue de l'Histoire des Religions (Paris), 226 (2009/2), pp. 246-260.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Some Specific Features of the Ḥurūfī Interpretation of the Qurʾanic and Biblical Episodes Related to Moses”, Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 10/1 (2008), pp. 21-49.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Deux textes ḥurūfī: Jāvdān-nāme de Faḍlallāh Astarābādī et l'un de ses commentaires, Maḥram-nāme de Seyyid Isḥāq”, Studia Iranica, t. 35/2 (2006), pp. 203-235.

  • Mir-Kasimov O., “Les dérivés de la racine RḤM: Homme, Femme et Connaissance dans le Jāvdān-nāme de Faḍlallāh Astarābādī”, Journal Asiatique 2007/1, pp. 9-33.

  • Özgür Koca Islam, Causality, and Freedom. From the Medieval to the Modern Era (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 287. in the Religious Studies Journal, CUP, forthcoming, 2021.

  • Seyfeddin Kara, In Search of Ali ibn Abi Talib’s Codex: History and Traditions of the Earliest Copy of the Qur’an. The Review of Qur'anic Research, the online companion to the International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA). (14 July 2019) https://members.iqsaweb.org/page-18221
  • Introduction and English Translation of M. A. Amir-Moezzi, La Preuve de Dieu. La mystique shi’ite à travers l’œuvre de Kulaynî (ixe-xe siècle), (Forthcoming, 2022).
    Translation from the French of the Introductory paper by Prof M. Yahia featuring in The Study of Shi‘i Islam. History, Theology and Law, F. Daftary and G. Miskinzoda, ed., (London, 2014), pp. 253-270.

  • Supervised the translation into Arabic of Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought. Theoretical Compromises in the Work of Avicenna, al-Ghazālī and Ibn ʿArabī. (Published as Bayna al-ḥurriyya al-insāniyya wa’l-qadar al-ilahiyya fi’l-fikr al-islāmiyya, National Center for Translation (NCT) Cairo, 2019).

‘La Questione del libero Arbitrio nel pensiero Islamico Classico’. 

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‘Avicenna on Matter, Matter’s Disobedience and Evil: Reconciling Metaphysical Stances and Qur’anic Perspectives, (edited and published on the IIS website in 2013)

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