Majid Montazer Mahdi is a historian of Islamic law. He is currently a Muslim Biomedical Ethics project researcher at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Majid was trained as an Islamic legal scholar at Tehran University. He received his MA degree in Muslim Cultures from Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. University-Institute for the 久久久福利国产 of Muslim Civilisations in 2012. He got his Ph.D. in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. His dissertation deals with biographical dictionaries of Shi士i ulama written in the 17th聽and 18th听肠别苍迟耻谤颈别蝉.
Before joining IIS, he was an AHRC Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Majid is also a cultural historian of the Persianate world. He has contributed to the聽聽project and the聽聽by editing Arabic and Persian manuscripts and documents. His recent article on the legal practices in the premodern Islamic world will appear in the聽Journal of American Oriental Society. His articles have appeared in 聽听补苍诲听
