Mohammad Ali Amir Moezzi was born in Iran and is Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne). He is the author of a large number of books and articles, in particular La religion discrète : croyances et pratiques spirituelles dans l’islam shi’ite (Vrin, 2006) and Le Guide divin dansle shi’isme originel (Verdier, 2007). He is the editor and co-author of Dictionnaire du Coran (Robert Laffont, 2007; Dizionario del Corano, Mondadori, 2007). He is also the scientific co-editor of the Islamica series published by Mondadori.
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