Dr Toby Mayer is a Senior Research Associate in Qur鈥檃nic Studies at 鸟大大影院, London. After completing his undergraduate degree in Indian Studies at the University of Cambridge, he went on to study Medieval Arabic thought at the University of Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Book of Allusions (Isharat) by the major Persian philosopher Ibn Sina.
In 2001, in conjunction with Professor Wilferd Madelung, he published a critical edition and translation of Shahrastani鈥檚 Kitab Musara鈥榓t al-Falasifa, entitled Struggling with the Philosopher: A Refutation of Avicenna鈥檚 Metaphysics (2001).
Until 2003, Dr Mayer was a lecturer in Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he taught courses in Islamic philosophy and mysticism. He has also worked for Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation and on various documentary film projects in India, Indonesia and other parts of the Muslim world.
