Leyla Tajer is a Lecturer (World Religions, Philosophy, Western Civilization, Islamic Thought and other Civilizations, and Sufi Literature), Workshop conductor, coordinator and a scholar of Love in Religions, Love lyric and Sufi literature; specializes in classification, stages, and ingredients of love, self-love and transforming power of love and emotion. She is currently associated with Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
She completed her PhD at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2014, winning the best PhD student award with a dissertation on “The Ingredients, Stages and Experience of Love: A Parallel Exposition of Jalaluddin M. Rumi and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.” Her BA and MA degrees were completed at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Science & Research Branch, again focusing on mysticism. She continued the same line of research doing a post-Doctoral program at ISTAC, IIUM.
She is also co-investigator at the project on the Study of “Love in Religion” the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford. She has a strong publication record and also had presented at international seminars worldwide.