Summary: Dr Cyrus Ali Zargar is Assistant Professor in Religion at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, in the USA. He is interested in using the study of literature in Persian and Arabic, especially lyric poetry, to explore Sufism and Shi'i mysticism. He recently published Sufi Aesthetics, which explores the spiritual writings and poetry of Ibn al-'Arabi and Fakhr al-Din 'Iraqi (d. 1289)
