Matthijs Eduard Willem van den Bos (born 19 April 1969 in Haarlem) is a scholar of Iranian and Shi'i Studies.
Van den Bos has undertaken extensive field research in Iran, Tajikistan, and among Shiite communities in Western Europe.
An anthropologist and scholar of Iranian Studies by training, he has published particularly in the realm of Sufism in Iran and of European Shi'ism, and contributed, among other things, several entries on Iranian Sufism to the Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition), the most authoritative encyclopedia in Islamic Studies.
[1][2][3][4][5] His full list of publications is available at https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MatthijsvandenBos Professor van den Bos has received many research awards, among them multi-year grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation[6] and the Netherlands Organization of Sciences (NWO).
His book "Mystic Regimes: Sufism and the State in Iran, from the late Qajar era to the Islamic Republic," published by Brill Academic Publishers,[7] has been reviewed in, among others, the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft [8] and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.