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Asef Bayat's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Kent
Masters Sociology University of Kent
Bachelors Sociology University of Tehran

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According to Wikipedia, Asef Bayat is an Iranian-American scholar. He is currently the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, Sociology, and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was previously a Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies and held the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He served as Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World and ISIM Chair of Islam and the Modern World at Leiden University .

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Asef Bayat's Published Works

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Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (2009) (1137)
Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2003) (770)
Urban informality : transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (2003) (495)
From `Dangerous Classes' to `Quiet Rebels' (2000) (464)
Un-civil society: The politics of the 'informal people' (1997) (402)
Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran (1997) (288)
Islam and Democracy (2007) (274)
Islamism and Social Movement Theory (2005) (199)
Life as Politics (2020) (198)
ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST (2002) (152)
Who is afraid of ashwaiyyat? Urban change and politics in Egypt (2000) (117)
The coming of a post‐Islamist Society (1996) (112)
The Arab Spring and its Surprises (2013) (102)
Radical Religion and the Habitus of the Dispossessed: Does Islamic Militancy Have an Urban Ecology? (2007) (95)
Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Comparing Islamic Activism in Iran and Egypt (1998) (95)
Revolution without Revolutionaries (2020) (92)
Politics in the City‐Inside‐Out (2012) (71)
Islamism and the politics of fun (2007) (67)
Cities of Extremes (2009) (56)
The 'Street' and the Politics of Dissent in the Arab World (2003) (55)
Revolution in bad times (2013) (54)
Islam and Democracy: What Is the Real Question? (2007) (53)
Post-Islamism (2020) (53)
The dawn of the Arab uprisings : end of an old order? (2012) (50)
Tehran: Paradox city (2010) (45)
Making Islam Democratic (2007) (40)
Plebeians of the Arab Spring (2015) (39)
A Women's Non-Movement: What It Means to Be a Woman Activist in an Islamic State (2007) (38)
Introduction: Being Young and Muslim in Neoliberal Times (2010) (37)
Post-Islamism at Large (2013) (28)
Post-Islamism : the many faces of political Islam (2013) (26)
Piety, Privilege and Egyptian Youth (2002) (25)
The Coming of a Post-Islamist Society, Critique (1996) (24)
The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary (2004) (23)
Cairo's poor dilemmas of survival and solidarity (1996) (22)
Muslim Youth and the Claim of Youthfulness (2010) (20)
Transforming the Arab World: The Arab Human. Development Report and the Politics of Change (Assessments) (2005) (20)
The Post-Islamist Revolutions (2011) (15)
Arab Revolutions and the Study of Middle Eastern Societies (2011) (13)
Squatters and the state: back street politics in the Islamic republic (1994) (12)
Marginality: Curse or Cure? (2012) (11)
Islamism and Empire: The Incongruous Nature of Islamist Anti-Imperialism (2008) (8)
Conclusion: Knowing Muslim Youth (2010) (7)
Areas and Ideas (2014) (7)
Understanding Southern Social Movements (2016) (7)
The Making of Post-Islamist Iran (2013) (7)
Is There A Youth Politics (2017) (6)
Revolutionary Iran and Egypt: Exporting Inspirations and Anxieties (2002) (6)
Egypt and Its Unsettled Islamism (2013) (5)
The Use and Abuse of 'Muslim Societies' (2003) (5)
Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively* (2001) (5)
Workless Revolutionaries: The Unemployed Movement in Revolutionary Iran (1997) (4)
Des révolutions post-islamistes (2012) (4)
Work Ethics in Islam: A comparison with Protestantism (1992) (4)
Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring, by Marsha Pripstein Posusney. 327 pages, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1997. $17.50 (Paper) ISBN 0-231-10693-9 (1999) (3)
When Muslims and Modernity Meet (2007) (3)
No silence, no violence: A post-Islamist trajectory (2009) (3)
Does Class Ever Opt Out of the Nation? Nationalist Modernization and Labor in Iran (2001) (3)
Feeling at Home on the Margin (2008) (3)
Arab Revolts: Islamists Aren't Coming! (2011) (3)
The Making of Muslim Youths (2005) (2)
La «rue arabe» au-delà de l'imaginaire occidental (2009) (2)
The Arab Spring and Revolutionary Theory: An Intervention in a Debate (2021) (2)
Middle Eastern Megacities: Social Exclusion, Popular Movements and the Quiet Encroachment of the Urban Poor (2009) (2)
ashwaiyyat? Urban change and politics in Egypt (2000) (2)
Political Islam in Iran and Egypt (2000) (2)
Global Tahrir (2021) (1)
A Tale of Two Trajectories (2007) (1)
Iran: Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process (2000) (1)
THE SECULAR MIRACLE - RELIGION, POLITICS AND ECONOMIC-POLICY IN IRAN - RAHNEMA,A, NOMANI,F (1993) (1)
Islamic modernism, nationalism, and fundamentalism: Episode and discourse (2007) (1)
Class, Historiography, and Iranian Workers (1994) (1)
Post-Islamist Democracy (2019) (0)
Revolutionary Life (2021) (0)
Neoliberal Policies and Development NGOs in the Middle East (2000) (0)
Enigmas of Struggle in Neoliberal Times (2014) (0)
Competition in the NHS: do we really need it? (2011) (0)
Middle East and Its Subaltern: Politics and Movements (2006) (0)
Ali Rahnema and Farhad Nomani, The Secular Miracle: Religion, Politics and Economic Policy in Iran , (London: Zed Books, 1990). Pp.376. (1993) (0)
Interview with Professor Asef Bayat (2022) (0)
Keynote adress: March 13th 2009 (2009) (0)
IGBAL'S VIEW ABOUT WOMEN (2005) (0)
Intellectual property and the healthcare services (2002) (0)
O postislamizmu općenito / Post-Islamism at large (2022) (0)
COOPERATIVES AND SOCIAL ECONOMY (2009) (0)
Contents Vol. 45, 2010 (2010) (0)
Labor and Democracy: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Iran (1988) (0)
Global Middle East (2021) (0)
Work, Politics and Power (Movements for the democratization of work in the Third World) (1991) (0)
Politics in the City-Inside-Out ASEF BAYAT (2012) (0)
Working in Kingston, Jamaica (2002) (0)
Is Iran on the Verge of Another Revolution? (2023) (0)
Imagining a Post-Islamist Democracy (2016) (0)
Ayşe Öncü, Çağlar Keyder, Saad Eddin Ibrahim (eds.) Developmentalism and Beyond: Society and Politics in Egypt and Turkey . Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1994, pp.321, index, pp. 322–325. (1995) (0)
Democratizing Liberalization: Workers' Participation, Strcutural Adjustment and Development (1997) (0)
Streets of Revolution, a text of a photo-book on the Iranian Revolution by Akbar Nazemi, Unsent Dispatches From the Iranian Revolution (2005) (0)
Free Market and Democracy in the Developing Countries (1992) (0)
Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed in the Post-Revolutionary Iran, 1979 (1997) (0)
Tamáss : contemporary Arab representations, Cairo 2. (2004) (0)
1 Global Middle East (2021) (0)
When Islam and democracy meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States (2007) (0)
Is there a future for Islamist revolutions? Religion, revolt, and middle Eastern modernity (2007) (0)
Edited (with Mustapha al-Sayyid) Cairo in a Turning Point (1998) (0)
Alexander, Jeffrey C. Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power 2011 Bloomsbury Academic: New York £12.99 (paperback) (2013) (0)
Laurence Deonna, Yemen (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1991). Pp. 193. (1993) (0)
DEVELOPMENT-PLANNING IN IRAN - FROM MONARCHY TO ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - MOFID,K (1988) (0)
Arab Uprisings in the Modern Middle East (2020) (0)
Notes on the Historiography of Labour in Iran (1994) (0)
Back-Street Politics: Squatters and the state in the Islamic Republic (1994) (0)
20 Global Tahrir (2021) (0)
Workers' control after the revolution (Iran) (1983) (0)
Occidentalisms: Perceptions & Constructions of the West in Egyptian Cultural Discourse (2004) (0)
Subject Index Vol. 45, 2010 (2010) (0)

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