Saïd Amir Arjomand

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Saïd Amir Arjomand (

Iranian-American scholar and Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, Long Island,[1] and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Chicago
.

Arjomand is the founder and former president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)[1] and founding Editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies.[2]

Works

Books

  • The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Organization and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890, the University of Chicago Press, 1984
  • The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, Oxford University Press, 1988
  • The Political Dimensions of Religion, edited with an introduction, State University of New York Press, 1993
  • Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, edited with Edward A. Tiryakian, London: Sage Publishers, 2004
  • Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction, edited with an introduction,
    E.J. Brill
    , 2007
  • Constitutional Politics in the
    Hart Publishers
    , 2008
  • After
    Khomeini, Iran under his Successors, Oxford University Press
    , 2009
  • The Rule of Law, Islam and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, edited with Nathan J. Brown, State University of New York Press, 2013
  • Worlds of Difference, co-edited,
    Sage
    , 2013
  • Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age, edited, SUNY Press, 2013
  • Sociology of Shiʿite Islam Collected Essays By Saïd Amir Arjomand, 2016
  • Revolution: Structure and Meaning in World History, the University of Chicago Press, 2019
  • 'Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam, University of California Press, 2022

Selected articles

  • Religious Human Rights and the Principle of Legal Pluralism in the Middle East, in J. van der Vyver and J. Witte, eds., Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective, Vol. 2: Legal Perspectives, M. Nijhoff, 1995, pp. 331–347.
  • Unity and Diversity in Islamic Fundamentalism, in M. Marty and R.S. Appleby, eds., Fundamentalisms Comprehended, the University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 179–198.
  • Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi`ism: a Sociohistorical Perspective, International Journal of Middle East Studies 28.4 (1996): pp. 491–515.
  • The Consolation of Theology: The Shi`ite Doctrine of Occultation and the Transition from Chiliasm to Law, 76.4 (1996): pp. 548–571.
  • Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classical Period, in B. McGinn, ed., The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, New York: Continuum, vol. 2, 1998, pp. 238–283.
  • The Law, Agency and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 41.2 (1999), pp 263–293.
  • Civil Society and the Rule of Law in the Constitutional Politics of Iran under Khatami,
    Social Research
    , 76.2 (2000), pp. 283–301.
  • Authority in Shi`ism and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in W. Ende & R. Brunner, eds., The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture & Political History, Leiden: Brill, 2000, pp. 301–332.
  • Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government, International Sociology, 16.3 (2001), pp. 461–480.
  • Social Theory and the Changing World: Mass Democracy, Development, Modernization and Globalization, International Sociology, 19.3 (2004), pp. 321–53.
  • Coffeehouses, Guilds & Oriental Despotism: Government & Civil Society in late-17th-early 18th Century Istanbul and Isfahan, and as seen from Paris & London, Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, 45.1 (2004), pp. 23–42.
  • Rationalization, the Constitution of Meaning and Institutional Development, in C. Camic & H. Joas, eds., The Dialogical Turn. New Roles for Sociology in the Post-Disciplinary Age, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, pp. 247–74.
  • Islam, Political Change and Globalization, Thesis Eleven, 76 (2004), pp. 5–24.
  • Developmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of Modernization, in Hans Joas & Barbro Klein, eds., The Benefit Of Broad Horizons: Intellectual And Institutional Preconditions For A Global Social Science, Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 205–26.
  • Legitimacy and Political Organisation: Caliphs, Kings and Regimes, being Ch. 7 of The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4 (R. Irwin, ed.; M. Cook, ed.-in-chief), 2010, pp. 225–73.
  • Legitimacy and Political Organisation: Caliphs, Kings and Regimes, being Ch. 7 of The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4 (R. Irwin, ed.; M. Cook, ed.-in-chief), 2010, pp. 225–73.
  • The Kingdom of Jurists: Constitutionalism in Iran, in Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity (eds. Rainer Grote and Tilmann Röder, Oxford/New York: OUP, 2011.

References

  1. ^ a b "Saïd Amir Arjomand". lapa.princeton.edu. Princeton University.
  2. ^ "Saïd Arjomand Bio". stonybrook.edu. Stony Brook University.

External links

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