• Habilitation: Religionswissenschaft/Ideengeschichte der Islamischen Welt
• „Religion and Philosophy in Pre-Modern Iran and Their Impacts on Neighbouring Regions”
• Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 7. November 2023
• Promotion (Ph.D.): Islamwissenschaft (summa cum laude)
• „A Shīʿī Theologian and Philosopher of Early Safavid Iran: Najm al-Dīn Ḥajjī Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings”
• Freie Universität Berlin, 19. December 2008
• Masterstudium: Islamic Studies
• „The Bird of the Soul: The Evolution of the Allegory of the Birds from Avicenna’s Treatise of the Bird to ʿAṭṭār’s Conference of the Birds”
• University of Leeds (UK), 28 November 2021
• Bachelorstudium: Philosophy
• University of Tehran (Iran), 1997

Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations 

• Nov. 2023 “Aristotelianism in Late Safavid Iran (1640–1722),” Yale University, Macmillan Center, Iran Colloquium Webinar
• Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7NY8UO0IFc&t=31s
• May 2023 “Averroes in the Islamic East: The Safavid Reception,” Post-Classical Philosophy: New Directions, Princeton University
• Sep. 2019 “Commentaries on the Metaphysics of Avicenna’s Shifāʾ: From Ghiyāth al-Dīn Dashtakī to Mīr Dāmād”, Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9), Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• May 2019 “The Controversy over the Notion of Nafs al-amr in the Thirteenth Century”, Heirs of Avicenna Workshop, School of Ancient Philosophy, LMU Munich
• April 2018 “Mīrzā Jān al-Bāghnawī: A Critic of Avicennan Philosophy in Safavid Iran,” Lecture Series on Early Modern Middle East, Centrum für Nah-und Mittelost-Studien, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• April 2018 “Shīʿī Scholars’ Responses to Henry Martyn’s Controversial Tracts against Islam,” International conference on “Les interactions entre chiʿites duodécimains et chrétiens: histoire, théologie, littérature” Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris
• May 2016 “The World Revealing Cup by Mīr Ḥusayn Maybudī (d. 1504) and Its Latin Translations,” Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
• Dec. 2015 “The God-World Relationship According to Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī,” Centre national de la recherché scientifique (CNRS), Paris
• Sept. 2014 “The Later Ashʿarī Theology, ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī’s Students and Their Works: A Preliminary Study,” Conference on Philosophical Theology in Islam, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Feb. 2014 “Ibn Kammūna’s Knowledge of, and Attitude towards, the Qurʾān,” Exegetical Crossroads: Under-standing Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Orient, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen

Monographien

• Philosophy in Early Safavid Iran. Najm al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Nayrīzī and His Writings, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2011.
• A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad, ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) and His Works, Leiden: Brill, 2006 (verfasst mit Sabine Schmidtke) 

Herausgegebene Sammelbände

• Philosophy in Safavid Iran: The Late Period (1652–1736), Leiden: Brill, bevorstehend.
• Entangled Religions, 13 1 (2023; special issue: “Safavid and Mughal Empires in Contact: Intellectual and Religious Exchanges between Iran and India in the Early Modern Era” [gemeinsam herausgegeben mit Kianoosh Rezania])
• Philosophy in Qajar Iran, Leiden: Brill, 2019.