Dr. Leila Rahimi Bahmany is a senior researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam. 

She obtained her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin, working on a literary comparative study. Her first book, Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation: Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath was published by Leiden University Press in 2015. Rahimi Bahmany’s publication list includes articles and book chapters on Sufi orders, figures, and literature in Iran and Azerbaijan.