Dr Alessandro Cancian

Cancian A., La scuola degli Imam: L’Iran e l’educazione religiosa nell’Islam sciita (Jouvence: Roma, 2016)

Cancian A.(Editor) Approaches to the Qur’an in Contemporary Iran (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Cancian A., The Emergence of Shi'i Sufism: Sulṭān ʿAlī Shāh Gunābādī and His Commentary on the Qur’an (Oxford University Press, 2023)

• “Sufi Mysticism and Usuli Shiʿism: Practical Authority in Modern Iranian Shiʿi Sufism” (in Sufi Mysticism and Usuli Shiʿism: Practical Authority in Modern Iranian Shiʿi Sufism, Brill, 2021)
• "In Between Reform and Bigotry: the Gunābādī Silsila in Two Early Twentieth-century Anti-Sufi works” (in Sufis and Mullahs: Sufis and their Opponents in the Persianate World, Irvine, 2020).