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Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution ... - Hamid Dabashi. Scores of books and articles have been published, addressing one or another aspect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Missing from this body of scholarship, however, has been a comprehensive analysis of the intellectual and ideological cornerstones of one of the most dramatic revolutions in our time. In this remarkable volume, Hamid Dabashi brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of this cataclysmic event. Dabashi has spent over ten years studying the writings, in their original Persian and Arabic, of the most influential Iranian clerics and thinkers. Examining the revolutionary sentiments and ideas of such figures as Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ali Sharicati, Morteza Motahhari, Sayyad Abolhasan Bani-Sadr, and finally the Ayatollah Khomeini, the work also analyzes the larger historical and theoretical implications of any construction of "the Islamic Ideology.

" New Texts Out Now: Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement. Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Farzaneh Milani (FM): In a way, Words, not Swords is a rebuttal to my first book, Veils and Words. The central argument of Veils and Words revolved around Iranian women's literary output. I claimed that the veil had covered not only Iranian women's bodies, but also their literary voices. Women's self-expression, either bodily or verbal, I surmised, was covered by the material veil and its verbal counterpart—silence.

I explored ways in which women poets and prose writers escaped the censoring of their culture and transcended the limits placed on their bodies and their voices. The central thesis of Words, not Swords is simple: a woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf remarked in her seminal work A Room of One’s Own, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will. From the Prologue: After Khomeini: Said Amir Arjomand. Iran Under His Successors Said Amir Arjomand Reviews and Awards "A clear analysis of Iran's political and ideological transformation in the post-Khomeini period. Dealing with a broad range of issues from political development and constitutional politics to Islamic reformism and the rise of new conservatives, this book is a valuable addition to Iranian studies and current debates in the sociology of revolution. "--Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego "Said Arjomand illuminates post-revolutionary Iran by placing it in its broad historical and sociological setting.

"With an unsurpassed command over the material and events and a comparativist perspective, Said Amir Arjomand rescues our entrapped understanding of Iran and sets a superior standard for a new generation of scholarship. Sociology Department @ SUNY Stony Brook. Welcome to the website of the Sociology Department at Stony Brook University. Based on the Academic Analytics Faculty Scholarly Productivity index, SBU Sociology ranks 23rd in the U.S. We have 16 full-time faculty, 53 graduate students and about 560 undergraduate majors.

Our Department provides graduate training in sociology that is informed by a global perspective. Whether a sociological question addresses individual-level processes, ideas, or organizations, there are often global influences and implications connected to that phenomenon. For undergraduate Sociology majors focusing on global studies, we encourage taking advantage of International Studies and Study Abroad through Stony Brook's International Academic Programs. Contact: Iran in World Politics: the Question of the Islamic Republic - SOAS Research Online. Iran in World Politics. The Iranian Revolutions in comparative perspective - Keddie. The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran - Charles Kurzman. The shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future: This was the firm conclusion of a top-secret CIA analysis issued in October 1978.

One hundred days later the shah--despite his massive military, fearsome security police, and superpower support was overthrown by a popular and largely peaceful revolution. But the CIA was not alone in its myopia, as Charles Kurzman reveals in this penetrating work; Iranians themselves, except for a tiny minority, considered a revolution inconceivable until it actually occurred. Revisiting the circumstances surrounding the fall of the shah, Kurzman offers rare insight into the nature and evolution of the Iranian revolution and into the ultimate unpredictability of protest movements in general. As one Iranian recalls, "The future was up in the air. " Staging a revolution: the art of persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Peter J. Chelkowski, Hamid Dabashi.

The Making of Iran's Islamic Revolution. Mantle of the Prophet - Religion and Politics in Iran. Modern Iran since 1921: The Pahlavis and After - Ali Ansari. Nobody is smarter than you when it comes to reaching your students. You know how to convey knowledge in a way that is relevant and relatable to your class. It's the reason you always get the best out of them. And when it comes to planning your curriculum, you know which course materials express the information in the way that’s most consistent with your teaching. That’s why we give you the option to personalize your course material using just the Pearson content you select. Take only the most applicable parts of your favorite materials and combine them in any order you want.

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Prof Ali Ansari B.A., Ph.D. (London) Contact Details E-mail - aa51@st-andrews.ac.uk Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463027 Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914 Research Profile on Research@StAndrews Teaching and Research Interests My research interests include the development of the State in Iran in the modern era, with a particular focus on nationalism, mythology and the use (and abuse) of history. Main Publications Single Authored Books The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran, (Cambridge University Press, 2012) [Details] Crisis of Authority: Iran's 2009 Presidential Election, (Chatham House, 2010) Iran Under Ahmadinejad (Adelphi Papers), (Routledge, 2008) [Details] Iran, Islam & Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change ( RIIA, London, 2000) Second edition, 2006. Articles in Journals & Edited Volumes The Myth of 'Perfidious Albion': Anglo-Iranian Relations in Historical Perspective, Asian Affairs, Vol XLIV No.

Administrative Duties External Administrative Duties Teaching Duties Research Students. Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong : Cyrus Schayegh. In Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong, Cyrus Schayegh tells two intertwined stories: how, in early twentieth-century Iran, an emerging middle class used modern scientific knowledge as its cultural and economic capital, and how, along with the state, it employed biomedical sciences to tackle presumably modern problems like the increasing stress of everyday life, people's defective willpower, and demographic stagnation.

The book examines the ways by which scientific knowledge allowed the Iranian modernists to socially differentiate themselves from society at large and, at the very same time, to intervene in it. In so doing, it argues that both class formation and social reform emerged at the interstices of local Iranian and Western-dominated global contexts and concerns. AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I. Science and the Formation of the Modern Iranian Middle Class, 1900-19501. Part II. ConclusionAppendix. Cyrus Schayegh is Assistant Professor at Princeton University. "Iran" by Hamid Dabashi. A lucid narrative of the last two hundred years of Iranian history.A brilliant scholarly analysis of the Iranian state of mind. An eye-opening consideration of a nation in need of understanding. Spectacular, important, and incisive . . . a crucial book for our times. Open and intimate . . . the book cuts through the myths, past and present, that Americans have been told about Iran.

NOW IN PAPERBACK a deeply informed political and cultural narrative of a country thrust into the international spotlight A lovingly written historical account of Iran that teaches us how to understand a people overshadowed by the grand narratives of political (mis)representation. A much-needed book in our troubled times. —GAYATRI SPIVAK, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Written in the author’s characteristically lively and combative prose, Iran combines “delightful vignettes” (Publishers Weekly) from Dabashi’s Iranian childhood and sharp, insightful readings of its contemporary history. Other Editions: MESAAS | Hamid Dabashi. Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He received a dual Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University.

He wrote his dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. Professor Dabashi has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab, and Iranian universities. Professor Dabashi has written eighteen books, edited four, and contributed chapters to many more.

He is also the author of over 100 essays, articles and book reviews on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics). Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Abdolkarim Soroush. Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush Edited and translated by Mahmoud Sadri, Edited and translated by Mahmoud Sadri, Ahmad Sadri, and Ahmad Sadri Reviews and Awards "This selection of [Khatami's] writings reveals a genuinely liberal intellect rooted in Soroush's Iranian and Islamic culture but at home with Western thought...his statements are penetrating and coherent. " --Foreign Affairs ",,,the major significance of these writings is the manner in which Western ideas of the prominence of reason on the one hand and a judgment of the intellectual hopelessness of post-modernism on the other hand leads to the affirmation of belief. " "Soroush's call for the unabashed application of reason to all the problems of the Muslim community is a profoundly liberating approach to religious and intellectual modernization.

" Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam. In 1979, Soroush became the youngest member appointed to Iran's post-revolution committee to purge and "Islamicize" Iran's universities. By the late 1980s, however, he was challenging the hard-line clerical rule in his writings and lectures, championing democracy, and calling for a synthesis of reason (or science) and Islam. For his efforts he was roughed up by thugs and forced into exile -- only to return to Iran soon after the 1997 election of the reformist President Muhammad Khatami. This selection of his writings reveals a genuinely liberal intellect rooted in Soroush's Iranian and Islamic culture but at home with Western thought, toward which he is neither aggressive nor apologetically defensive.

Soroush, who has gained a following among Iranian students and even a few of the mullahs, cites the likes of Jalal al-Din Rumi, Muhammad Iqbal, Jörgen Habermas, and Alexis de Tocqueville as often as the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad. Modern Iran - Keddie, Nikki R. Nikki Keddie UCLA Homepage. Fields of interest: Near Eastern history; Social history; Women’s History; Comparative and World History; Photography I was born in Brooklyn, and attended the City and Country School and Horace-Mann Lincoln High School in Manhattan before going to Radcliffe College, (Magna cum laude, Modern European History and Literature, elected to Phi Beta Kappa in junior year).

My thesis was on the Italian Socialist Party. Then I went to Stanford for a Modern European History M.A., with a thesis on the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico. Then to U.C. After a year's research job on South Asia, and a general secondary credential, I became an instructor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and then instructor, then assistant professor, at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, with my main teaching in their three-year Western Civilization program.

I have received several lifetime awards: · 1994 elected a fellow of the of Arts and Sciences John Reudy, (chair G.E. von Grunebaum), RDPB I. Ed. II. Iran's Struggle for Economic Independence: Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era. Ervand abrahamian. A History of Modern Iran. In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic.

In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation of society under the clergy and, more recently, the expansion of the state and the struggle for power between the old elites, the intelligentsia and the commercial middle class. The author is a compassionate expositor. While he adroitly negotiates the twists and turns of the country's regional and international politics, at the heart of his book are the people of Iran. It is to them and their resilience that this book is dedicated, as Iran emerges at the beginning of the twenty-first century as one of the most powerful states in the Middle East. Abrahamian, E.: Iran Between Two Revolutions. Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Ervand Abrahamian discusses Iranian society and politics during the period between the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909 and the Islamic Revolution of 1977-1979.

Presented here is a study of the emergence of horizontal divisions, or socio-economic classes, in a country with strong vertical divisions based on ethnicity, religious ideology, and regional particularism. Professor Abrahamian focuses on the class and ethnic roots of the major radical movements in the modem era, particularly the constitutional movement of the 1900s, the communist Tudeh party of the 1940s, the nationalist struggle of the early 1950s, and the Islamic upsurgence of the 1970s. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East Subject Area: Middle Eastern Studies.