Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi is an author and lecturer in the fields of Comparative Religion, Islamic Spirituality, and Koranic Studies. Among his works are "Paths to Transcendence according to Shankara, Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart" (Bloomington, 2006), and the award-winning "Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali" (London/New York, 2006). He is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
Dr Reza was the author of “Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism”, published in 2010, whereby the foreword to the book was written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.