Abbas Aghdassi is as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Civilization of Muslim Societies. Formerly, he was the Director of Studies, FUM College Language Center (FUMC-LC), and the Assistant Director to the FUM Press (FUMP). He teaches courses on Methodologies in Islamic Studies, Contemporary Muslim World (Middle East & North Africa), and Islamic studies and/in the West. His fields of interest include methods in Islamic studies, Muslim minorities, academic Persian, bibliography and bibliometrics, (humanizing) Orientalism, and socio-historical study of Greater Khorasan.