Mohammad Amin Mansouri

Professional Overview:

Dr. Mohammad Amin Mansouri is an intellectual historian who specializes in Shiʿi-Sunni relations, Shiʿi intellectual history, Sufism, as well as the history of science in the Islamic world. He particularly focuses on the developments of Islamic thought during the Mongol and Post-Mongol eras in the Persianate world. Initially trained at an Islamic seminary in Iran, Dr. Mansouri earned degrees in Islamic theology and Western philosophy before obtaining his second master’s degree from the University of British Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto in 2022. Dr. Mansouri is currently working on two book projects that aim to reexamine common assumptions about Islamic intellectual history during the Mongol era in the Islamic world.  

For an updated list of his research, please refer to his academic page: https://utoronto.academia.edu/MohammadAminMansouri 

Recent Publications:

• Mohammad Amin Mansouri, “The Greatest Name of God: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as a Cosmic Image in Rajab al-Bursī’s Mashāriq al-anwār,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 34, no. 4 (2024): 687–710.
• Mohammad Amin Mansouri, “Sufism vs. Monism in ʿAzīz-i Nasafī’s Works,” Iranian Studies, no. 58 (2024) 1–17.
• Mohammad Amin Mansouri, “Casket of Light Padlocked with Light:” Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī, Prophetic Family, and the Formation of Postclassical Shi'i Esotericism,” Brill Journal of Shii Review, no. 7 (2023) 1–33.
• Mohammad Amin Mansouri, “Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī and Ismailism,” Studia Islamica, no. 117 (2022), 171–229.
• Mohammad Amin Mansouri, “Walāya between Lettrism and Astrology: The Occult Mysticism of Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī,” Journal of Sufi Studies, no. 9 (2021), 161–201.
• Mohammad Amin Mansouri, “The Sea and the Wave: A Preliminary Inquiry into Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Ontological Criticism of Ibn al-ʿArabī,”  The Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, no. 68 (2020): 75–116.