Hassan Farhang Ansari

Hassan Ansari Qomi was born in 1970 in Tehran. He pursued seminary and university studies in Iran and then received his doctorate in philosophy from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) in Paris. Ansari has spent years researching Islamic manuscripts, Shiite and Sunni theology, Islamic philosophy, and the history of religious thought.

He is currently a visiting professor and researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where his main focus is the study of Islamic theology, philosophy, jurisprudence, and legal theory in the Islamic tradition. Using historical and textual-critical methods, Ansari is engaged in rereading the works of classical Islamic theologians and philosophers and has published numerous articles and studies in these fields.

His works and research, particularly in the field of Imami theology, the relations between Shiite and Sunni intellectual currents, and the history of philosophical-theological thought in the Islamic world, have received considerable attention.