His research areas include Islamic theosophy and German Idealism. His forthcoming monograph is based on his dissertation, The Hermeneutics of Religious Imagination and Human Nature in Kant & Ibn al-‘Arabi. Abbas Barzegar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. He is co-editor of Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam. His research portfolio includes the formation of Sunni orthodoxy in late antiquity, the aesthetics of political Islam, and Islamic pedagogy in the United States. For a full bio see: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwrel/4663.html