Leila Chamankhah is an accomplished scholar with a dual Ph.D. in Islamic Studies and Political Science. Her research focuses on Islamic studies, Shīʿan intellectual history, and Iranian studies, with numerous peer-reviewed publications in these fields. She is the author of The Conceptualization of Guardianship in Iranian Intellectual History (1800–1989): Reading Ibn ʿArabī’s Theory of Wilāya in the Shīʿa World, published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2019. Dr. Chamankhah is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Literary and Cultural Studies at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in Punjab, India.