Matthijs van den Bos

Matthijs van den Bos is a scholar of Iranian and Shi'i Studies. He teaches in the Department of International Studies at Birkbeck College, the University of London. He has been a Visitor at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, a fellow of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, and a fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), at Leiden University. Before joining the University of London, Professor van en Bos taught at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam.

Professor van den Bos has undertaken extensive field research in Iran, Tajikistan, and among European Shiite communities. An anthropologist and scholar of Iranian Studies by training, he has published particularly in the realm of Sufism in Iran and of European Shi'ism. His full list of publications is available at http://birkbeck.academia.edu/MatthijsvandenBos

Professor van den Bos has received numerous research awards, among them multi-year grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Netherlands Organization of Sciences (NWO). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (2010).

In 2002, his book "Mystic Regimes: Sufism and the State in Iran, from the late Qajar era to the Islamic Republic" was published by Brill Academic Publishers.