Editing Said Amir Arjomand

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}}'''Said Amir Arjomand,''' the service professor of the sociology is an Iranian-American scholar and director at Stony Brooks University and institute for global studies.

== Educations ==

* PhD, University of Chicago, 1980

== Activities ==

* The Crane Inaugural Fellow in Law and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and a Carnegie Scholar (2006-2008)
* Director of the Stony Brook Institute for World Studies
* Editor of the Institute Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies, SUNY Press Series
* Helped organized the Thematic Plenaries at the World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in July 2010
* Co-editor (with Elisa Reis) of a volume of their selected papers, Worlds of Difference (Sage, 2013).
* Professor of Sociology at The Stony Brook since 1978
* Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Persianate Studies.  

== Award ==

* the Section’s Award for the Best Essay in Comparative and Historical Sociology in 1993  for  hisarticle, "Constitutions and the Struggle for Political Order: A Study in the Modernization of Political Traditions,"   ''European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie,'', 33.4 (1992) and  

== Books ==

* ''Constitutional Politics in the Middle East'', edited with an introduction, London: Hart Publishers, 2007 (in press).
* ''Rethinking Civilizational Analysis'', edited with Edward A. Tiryakian, London: Sage Publishers, 2004.
* ''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.
* ''After Khomeini, Iran under his Successors'', Oxford University Press, 2009
* [[Sociology of Shiite Islam|''Sociology of Shiʿite Islam, Collected Essays,''  Brill '', 2016'']]

== Articles ==

* [http://est.sagepub.com/content/early/rece ''Revolution: Structure and Meaning in World History.'' The University of Chicago Press, 2019 ''European Journal of Social Theory, 20.2 (2017). (published online May 4, 2016 and accessible at''] '' '' 
* Developmental Path ( ''Entwicklungsform''): A Neglected Weberian Concept and its Usefulness in Civilizational Analysis of Islam,” in R. Robertson and J. Simpson,  ''The Art and Science of Sociology: Essays in Honour of Edward Tiryakian'', Anthem Press, 2016, pp. 43-78.
* “Unity of the Persianate World under Turko-Mongolian Domination and Divergent Development of Imperial Autocracies in the Sixteenth Century,” ''Journal of Persianate Studies'', 9.1 (2016), pp. 1-18.
* “State Formation in Early Modern Muslim Empires: Common Origin and Divergent Paths,”  ''Social Imaginaries'', 2.2 (2016), pp. 35-51.
* ''The Rule of Law, Islam and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran'', edited with Nathan J. Brown, State University of New York Press, 2013.
* “Axial civilizations, multiple modernities, and Islam,”   ''Journal of Classical Sociology'', 11.3 ( 2011) pp. 327 - 335.
* “Islamic Resurgence and Its Aftermaths,” being Ch. 4 of   ''The New Cambridge History of Islam'', vol. 6 (R. Heffner, ed.; M. Cook, ed.-in-chief), 2010, pp. 173-197.
* “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.
* “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.
* “Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies,”   ''Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology'', 51.3 (2010), pp. 363-99.
*  ''After Khomeini, Iran under his Successors'', Oxford University Press, 2009.
* ''Constitutional Politics in the Middle Eas''t, edited with an introduction, London: Hart Publishers, 2008.
* ''Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction'', edited with an introduction, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007 .
* ''Rethinking Civilizational Analysi''s, edited with Edward A. Tiryakian, London: Sage Publishers, 2004.

* Constitutions and the Struggle for Political Order: A Study in the Modernization of Political Traditions,"   ''European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie,'', 33.4 (1992)
* "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.

== Editoral ==

* “The Constitution of Medina: A Socio-legal Interpretation of Muhammad’s Acts of Foundation of the Umma,”   ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', 41.4 (2009), pp. 555-75.
* “The Salience of Political Ethic in the Spread of Persianate Islam,”   ''Journal of Persianate Studies'', 1.1 (2008), pp. 5-29.
* “Has Iran’s Islamic Revolution ended?”   ''Radical History Review'', 105.10 (2009), pp. 132-38. (Turkish translation in press)

* “Islamic Constitutionalism,”   ''Annual Review of Law and Social Science'', 3 (2007), pp. 115-40.
* "Islam, Political Change and Globalization,"   ''Thesis Eleven'', 76 (2004), pp. 5-24.
* "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.
* "Social Theory and the Changing World: Mass Democracy, Development, Modernization and Globalization,"   ''International Sociology'', 19.3 (2004), pp. 321-53.

* "Modernita, tradizione e la riforma schi`ita nell 'Iran contemporanea",   ''Sociologia del diritto'', XXVIII.2 (2001-2), pp. 99-114.
* "The Reform Movement and the Debate on Modernity and Tradition in Contemporary Iran,"   ''International Journal of Middle East Studies''  (forthcoming).  
* "Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government,"   ''International Sociology'', 16.3 (2001), pp. 461-480.
* "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.
* "Civil Society and the Rule of Law in the Constitutional Politics of Iran under Khatami,"   ''Social Research'', 76.2 (2000), pp. 283-301.
* "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.
* "Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classical Period," in B. McGinn, ed.,   ''The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism'', New York: Continuum, vol. 2, 1998, pp. 238-283.
* "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.

== ُSource ==

* [https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/people/faculty/arjomand.php Arjomand's personal biography]

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