Matthijs Eduard Willem van den Bos (born 19 April 1969 in
Haarlem) is a scholar of
Iranian and
Shi'i Studies. He teaches in the Department of Politics at
Birkbeck College
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of the
University of London. Professor van den Bos has been a Visitor at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, a fellow of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the
University of Amsterdam, and a fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden. Before joining the University of London, van den Bos taught at the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam.
Van den Bos has undertaken extensive field research in Iran,
Tajikistan
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, and among Shiite communities in Western Europe. 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, and contributed, among other things, several entries on Iranian Sufism to the
Encyclopaedia of Islam
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(third edition), the most authoritative encyclopedia in Islamic Studies. His full list of publications is available at https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MatthijsvandenBos
Professor van den Bos has received many 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 (2010).
His book "Mystic Regimes: Sufism and the State in Iran, from the late Qajar era to the Islamic Republic," published by Brill Academic Publishers, has been reviewed in, among others, the ''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft'' and the ''International Journal of Middle East Studies''.
References
External links
Bibliography at the University of LondonM.E.W. van den Bos, 1969 -at the University of Amsterdam ''Album Academicum''
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1969 births
Living people
Dutch anthropologists
Iranologists
Dutch Islamic studies scholars
Middle Eastern studies scholars
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
University of Amsterdam alumni
People from Haarlem