Zahir Bhalloo completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford on the practice of Islamic law in early modern Iran in 2013. Since then he has carried out post-doctoral research at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and at Freie Universität in Berlin. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) funded project on the Persian Documents from al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem at the Centre for Manuscript Cultures, Universität Hamburg. He is the author of Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran: Sharia Court Practice in the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries (Berlin, 2023) and with Said Aljoumani and Konrad Hirschler, Catalogue of the New Corpus of Documents from the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem (Berlin, 2024). Besides his interest in Islamic legal documentary culture, he has also published articles in the field of Shīʿī studies.