Kamran Scot Aghaie
Kamran Scott Aghaie is historical expert.
Biography
Kamran Scott Aghaie is historical expert and Associate Professor — Ph.D in University of California at Los Angeles.
His Interests about Islamic studies, Shi'ism, modern Iranian and Middle Eastern history; secondary areas of interest: world history, historiography, religious studies, nationalism, gender studies and economic history.
Research
The research he has done about :Modern Islamic history; Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran; modern Iranian history; Shi'ism; Islamic rituals; social and cultural history; religious and political discourses; historiography; nationalism; gender studies; Persian; Arabic; popular Islam
bibliography
“Introduction: gendered aspects of the emergence and historical development of Shi`i symbols and rituals”, The women of Karbala: ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shi’i Islam,2005, 1-25 p.
"Religious rituals, social identities and political relationships in Tehran under
Qajar rule, 1850s–1920s “, Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, edited
by Robert Gleave, London, Routledge/Curzon Press, 2005, 373-392 p.
"Reinventing Karbala: Revisionist interpretations of the ‘Karbala
Paradigm”, Jusur: The UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1994,
Vol. 10, 1–30 p.
“The gender dynamics of Moharram symbols and rituals in the latter years of Qajar rule”, The women of Karbala: ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shi'i Islam, 2005, 45-63 p .
«The Karbala Narrative in Shii Political Discourse in Modern Iran in the 1960s– 1970s.”, The Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2001, 151176 – p.
The martyrs of Karbala : Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2005, xvi + 200 p.
"The martyrs of Karbala : Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran",
International Journal of Middle East Studies, special issue on Iran,
December 2006
"The Origins of the Sunnite-Shi'ite Divide and the Emergence of the Taziyeh Tradition", The Drama Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, Winter 2005, 42–47p.
The women of Karbala: ritual performance and symbolic discourses in
modern Shi'i Islam, edited by Kamran Scot Aghaie, Austin, University
of Texas press, 2005 , iix + 792 p.
"The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performances and Symbolic Discourses in
Modern Shi'i Islam", By S. H. Rizvi, American Journal of Islamic Social
Sciences, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2006, 108-110 p.
"The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performances and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam", By Babak Rahimi, Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2007, 221-224 p.
"The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performances and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam", By Pedram Khosronejad, International Journal of Middle East Studies, special issue on Iran, December 2006
"Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora", By Frank Korom, Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2004, 405-408 p.