Hamid Algar | Academic Influence

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Hamid Algar

Hamid Algar is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Tehran

Hamid Algar's Degrees

PhD Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley
Masters Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley

Why Is Hamid Algar Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Hamid Algar is a British-American Professor Emeritus of Persian studies at the Faculty of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He writes on Persian and Arabic literature and contemporary history of Iran, Turkey, the Balkans and Afghanistan. He served on the UC Berkeley faculty for 45 years . Algar remains an active scholar and his research has concentrated on the Islamic history of the Perso-Turkish world, with particular emphasis on Iranian Shi'ism during the past two centuries and the Naqshbandi Sufi order. Algar is a Shia Muslim.

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Hamid Algar's Published Works

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Published Works

Islam and revolution : writings and declarations of Imam Khomeini (1983) (185)
Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (2015) (172)
Occidentosis: A Plague from the West (1984) (119)
God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period 1200-1550 (1997) (106)
Religion and state in Iran, 1785-1906;: The role of the ulama in the Qajar period (1969) (91)
Wahhabism: A Critical Essay (2002) (88)
On the Sociology of Islam (2000) (85)
Iran as imagined nation : the construction of national identity (1994) (64)
Mīrzā Malkum Khān: A Study in the History of Iranian Modernism (1973) (50)
Islam and revolution (2002) (46)
An introduction to the history of freemasonry in Iran (1970) (44)
The Roots of the Islamic Revolution (1983) (43)
The Naqshbandi order: a preliminary survey of its history and significance. (1976) (42)
Modern Islamic political thought : the response of the Shīʻī and Sunnī Muslims to the Twentieth Century (2001) (39)
ʿAllāma Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʾī: Philosopher, Exegete, and Gnostic (2006) (30)
Revolt of agha Khan Mahallati and the transference of the Ismaili Imamate to India (1969) (26)
Fundamentals of Islamic thought : God, man, and the universe (2015) (26)
The Centennial Renewer: Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and the Tradition of Tajdid (2001) (25)
An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry (1976) (23)
Islam and revolution : writings and declarations (1985) (19)
Society and economics in Islam (1982) (13)
RELIGIOUS FORCES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRAN (1991) (12)
The Islamic revolution in Iran (1980) (11)
Malkum Khan, Akhūndzada and the proposed reform of the Arabic alphabet (1969) (10)
RELIGIOUS FORCES IN EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRAN (1991) (10)
Some Notes on the Naqshbandi Tariqat in Bosnia (1971) (10)
THE STUDY OF ISLAM: THE WORK OF HENRY CORBIN (1980) (9)
Principles of Islamic jurisprudence : according to Shiʿi law (2003) (8)
A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450–1700By Dina Le Gall. (2007) (8)
The path of God's bondsmen from origin to return : a Sufi compendium = Merṣād al-ʿebād men al-mabdāʾ elāʾl-maʿād : a Sufi compendium (1982) (8)
Some observations on religion in Safavid Persia (1974) (7)
Social and historical change : an Islamic perspective (2015) (6)
Some Notes On the Naqshband! Tariqat in Bosnia 1 (1971) (6)
The Seal of the Prophets and his message : lessons on Islamic doctrine (1989) (5)
PERSIAN LITERATURE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA1 (1994) (4)
The Cambridge History of Iran. Volume 4, from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs (1980) (4)
Impostors, Antinomians and Pseudo-Sufis: Cataloguing the Miscreants (2018) (3)
Jāmī in Regional Contexts (2018) (3)
The Islamic revolution in Iran : transcript of a four-lecture course given by Hamid Algar at the Muslim Institute, London (1980) (2)
Politics, Poetry and Sufism in Medieval Iran: New Perspectives on Jāmī’s Salāmān va Absāl By Chad G. Lingwood (2015) (2)
Imamate and Leadership (1996) (2)
The Hurufi influence on Bektashism (1992) (2)
An Introduction to Said Nursi: Life, Thought and Writings by Ian S. Markham and Suendam Birinci Pirim, and: Theodicy and Justice in Modern Islamic Thought: The Case of Said Nursi ed. by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘ (review) (2013) (2)
The perfect guide to the sciences of the Qurʾān (2011) (2)
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism by Patricia Crone (review) (2015) (2)
God and his attributes : lessons on Islamic doctrine (2013) (1)
Imam Abu Hamid Ghazali : an exponent of Islam in its totality : a lecture (2001) (1)
The foundations of Islamic doctrine (1989) (1)
Spiritual Gems: The Mystical Qur’an Commentary Ascribed by the Ṣūfīs to Imām Jaʿ far al-Ṣādiq (d. 148/175) trans. and annotated by Farhana Mayer (review) (2016) (1)
Religion and State in Iran 1785-1906: The Role of the Ulama in the Qajar Period (1972) (1)
The Path of God's Bondsmen from Origin to Return. A Sufi Compendium by Najm al-Din Razi, known as Daya (1982) (1)
Paradigma kaum tertindas : sebuah kajian sosiologi Islam (2001) (1)
Review: Mystic Regimes: Sufism and the State in Iran, from the Late Qajar Era to the Islamic Republic. (2005) (1)
The Herat Triumvirate: Jami, Bayqara, Navaʾi (2013) (1)
Jesus in the Qurʹān : His reality expounded inthe Qou'an (1999) (1)
Sufism : principles and practice : a lecture (1999) (0)
Modern Arabic Poetry Iii (1970) (0)
Farhad Kazemi, ed., “Iranian Revolution in Perspective,” Iranian Studies , XIII:1–4 (dated 1980 but issued early 1982). Pp. 390. (1983) (0)
Jesus in the Qur'an (1999) (0)
Fellowships and Grants Received (1974) (0)
Modern Arabic Poetry Ii (1970) (0)
From Infancy to Eminence, from Kharjird to Khiaban (2013) (0)
Plot of "Hamlet." (1964) (0)
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism By Alexander Knysh (2018) (0)
Review: Early Shī‘ī Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al‐Bāqir Arzina R. Lalani Early Shī‘ī Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad al‐Bāqir (2002) (0)
The Hajj Today: A Survey of the Contemporary Pilgrimage to Makkah. By David Long. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1979. 180 pp. (1981) (0)
‘Solitude in Society’: Jami as Social Critic and Polemicist (2013) (0)
Liyakat Nathani Takim, Shi'ism in America (New York and London: New York University Press, 2009, £23.00). Pp. 284. isbn 978 0 8147 8296 5. (2010) (0)
Resurrection Judgement and the Hereafter (1992) (0)
Q. 21:78–9: A Qur'anic Basis for Ijtihād? (2002) (0)
Further Reading and Works Cited1 (2013) (0)
Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini, A Clarification of Questions. An Unabridged Translation of Resaleh Towzih al-Masael , J. Borujerdi, trans. (Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1984). Pp. 466. (1987) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1984) (0)
News of Members (1973) (0)
‘The Seal of the Poets’: Jami and the Traditions of Persian Poetry (2013) (0)
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Keith David Watenpaugh: Being Modern in the Middle East (2005) (0)
Surat Al-Fatiha: Foundation of the Qur'an (1997) (0)
The Hamzeviye : A deviant movement in Bosnian Sufism (1997) (0)
Religion and politics in Iraq : Muslim Shia clerics between quietism and resistance (2004) (0)
Jāmī and the Ottomans (2018) (0)
Book Review:The Most Learned of the Shi'a: The Institution of the "Marja' Taqlid" Linda S. Walbridge (2003) (0)
Response to Browers: Marja‘iyyah and Wilayat al-Faqih (2012) (0)
The Way of Muhammad (2002) (0)
Naqshbandi–Akbari: Jami and Sufi Tradition (2013) (0)
Review: The Letters of Khwaja ‘Ubayd Allah Ahrar and his Associates Jo-Ann Gross, Asom Urunbaev The Letters of Khwaja ‘Ubayd Allah Ahrar and his Associates (2004) (0)
II. The Eve of Qajar Rule (1969) (0)
Introduction: Geographical and Historical Setting (2013) (0)
‘ALL2MA SAYYID MUEAMMAD EUSAYN FAB2FAB28>: PHILOSOPHER, EXEGETE, AND GNOSTIC (2006) (0)
Jami and Posterity: His Legacy in Dar al-Islam (2013) (0)
Abii'l-Q%im 'Abd al-Karim ibn Hawain al-Qushayfi, Principles of Sufism (2010) (0)
Grants for Research on the Near and Middle East (1969) (0)

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Wahhabism: A Critical Essay