PhD

Amin Ehteshámi

wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

amin.ehteshami(at)oeaw.ac.at 
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KURZBIOGRAPHIE

Amin Ehteshámi is a postdoctoral fellow in the ERC Advanced Grant project IDEO-YEMEN, led by Dr Marieke Brandt at the Institute for Social Anthropology. His research traces the genealogy of contemporary Zaydi discourse on the imamate, reconstructing the transformations that shaped its emergence over the past four centuries. He received his PhD in Islamic intellectual history from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Academy, he held postdoctoral fellowships at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2020–26) and the University of Exeter (2019–20). He is co-executive editor of Shii Studies Review (Brill).

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