Moojan Momen[a] (b. 1950) is a retired physician and historian specializing in Baháʼí studies who has published numerous books and articles about the Baháʼí Faith and Islam, especially Shia Islam, including for Encyclopædia Iranica[1][2] the British Library,[3] and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.[2]
His book An introduction to Shi'i Islam was used as required reading in university and seminary courses on Shia Islam.[4] He won the 7th annual Thomas Robbins Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements in 2009 for his article “Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852.”[5] He is an editor of Baháʼí Studies Review and serves as a faculty member at the Bahá'í Wilmette Institute.[6]
He was born 1950, in Tabriz, Iran, but the family migrated to England in 1955 where he was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, St John's College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital (teaching hospital), London.[1] He is married to another scholar/publisher Wendi Momen.[1]
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