Abbas Aghdassi (عباس اقدسی) 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.