Fatima Tofighi is a Research Fellow at the University of Bonn, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Religions (Qom, Iran), and former EUME fellow at Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin). She is the author of Modern Methods in the Interpretation of Scriptures (in Farsi, Tehran: 2022), Paul's Letters and the Construction of the European Self (London: 2017), and a number of peer-reviewed articles and translations on religious studies, gender and religion, and hermeneutics.