Roman Seidel

is a postdoctoral fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. His primary research interest is the study of philosophy in the modern Middle East. He earned a PhD in Islamic Studies in 2011 from the University of Zurich, where he was Lecturer for Islamic Studies focussing on Persian and Modern Iran at the Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies from 2011 to 2014. He is involved in the Ueberweg-History of Philosophy project (Philosophy in the Islamic World, nineteenth- and twentieth- century) and serves on the editorial board of the Philosophie in der nahöstlichen Moderne / Philosophy in the Modern Middle East book series published by Klaus-Schwarz Verlag (Berlin) and on the advisory board of the World Philosophies book series published by Mimesis International. His doctoral dissertation, Kant in Teheran: Anfänge, Ansätze und Kontexte der Kantrezeption in Iran, was published by De Gruyter (Berlin) in 2014.