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* "Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classical Period," in B. McGinn, ed.,   ''The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism'', New York: Continuum, vol. 2, 1998, pp. 238-283.
* "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.
* "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.
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* [https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/people/faculty/arjomand.php Arjomand's personal biography]


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Said Amir Arjomand
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NationalityAmerican
Occupationservice professor and director
Academic work
Institutionsstony brooks university and institute for global studies

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[edit | edit source]

  • PhD, University of Chicago, 1980

Activities[edit | edit source]

  • 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[edit | edit source]

  • 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[edit | edit source]

  • 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 Shiʿite Islam, Collected Essays,  Brill , 2016

Articles[edit | edit source]

  • 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 East, edited with an introduction, London: Hart Publishers, 2008.
  • Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction, edited with an introduction, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007 .
  • Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, 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[edit | edit source]

  • “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.

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