Dr. Arash Ghajarjazi

Post-doctorate Fellow (Jun. 2022 - May 2025)

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Dr. Arash Ghajarjazi was a post-doctorate fellow for the ERC Advanced Grant Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam. He works across media and cultural history, religious studies, Iranian Studies, and digital humanities. His monograph, Irrationalities in Islam and Media in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2022) offers the first media archaeological perspective on the Iranian context. His second monograph is Remembering Umar Khayyam: Episodes of Unbelief in the Reception Histories of Persian Quatrains, which is the outcome of his work in Beyond Sharia project, and is published by de Gruyter. The book offers new insights into the interplay of religion, media, literature, and collective memory in Iran and charts the histories of secular thought in Persian. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the Vidi project Iran’s Secular Shift: A Mixed Methods Approach to Nonreligion and Atheism in an Islamic Republic (2025–2030), led by Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab.

Video: “Beyond Sharia: Arash Ghajarjazi on Secularity in the Persian Cultural Area” (2024)

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