Dr Alessandro Cancian
Senior Research Associate

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Departments and units
Qur'anic Studies Unit -
Email
acancian@iis.ac.uk
Modules
GPISH: Cultural Anthropology of Muslim Societies
STEP: Shi’i Sufism; Twelver Shi’ism; Mystical exegesis of the Qur’an(also Koran. Arabic term meaning, ‘recitation’ or ‘scripture’): Muslims believe that the Holy Qur’an contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of… More; Anthropology of Islam.