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PhD Sociology University of Pennsylvania
Masters Sociology University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Sociology University of Tehran

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According to Wikipedia, Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are Theology of Discontent, several books on Iranian cinema, Staging a Revolution, the edited volume Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema, and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history, Iran: A People Interrupted.

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Hamid Dabashi's Published Works

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The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012) (236)
Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1992) (184)
Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1999) (81)
Islamic Liberation Theology : Resisting the Empire (2008) (76)
Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future (2001) (74)
Brown Skin, White Masks (2011) (73)
Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror (2008) (59)
Iran, The Green Movement and the USA: The Fox and the Paradox (2010) (53)
Iran: A People Interrupted (2007) (51)
Can Non-Europeans Think? (2015) (47)
The Green Movement in Iran (2011) (46)
Dreams of a nation : [on Palestinian cinema] (2006) (45)
Being a Muslim in the World (2012) (32)
The World of Persian Literary Humanism (2012) (25)
Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest (2011) (24)
The poetics of politics: commitment in modern Persian literature (1985) (24)
Authority in Islam : from the rise of Muhammad to the establishment of the Umayyads (1991) (21)
Expectation of the millennium : Shiʿism in history (1989) (20)
It Was in China, Late One Moonless Night (2003) (18)
The end of Islamic ideology (2000) (16)
Shiʿism : doctrines, thought, and spirituality (1988) (15)
Being a Muslim (2013) (11)
Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene (2015) (11)
Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation (2016) (10)
Taziyeh as Theatre of Protest (2005) (9)
For the Last Time: Civilizations (2001) (8)
The Fundamental Problem in the Clerical Establishment (2001) (8)
Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire (2019) (8)
The Shahnameh (2019) (7)
Ta'ziyeh as Theatre of Protest (2005) (7)
The Discrete Charm of European Intellectuals (2016) (6)
Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad (2020) (6)
Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body (2012) (6)
The adventures of Amir Hamza : lord of the auspicious planetary conjunction (2008) (5)
Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema (2007) (5)
Women of Allah (1999) (5)
Europe and its Shadows (2019) (5)
By What Authority? The Formation of Khomeini's Revolutionary Discourse, 1964-1977 (1989) (5)
In the Absence of the Face (2012) (5)
Dreaming of Baghdad (2009) (4)
Islamic Liberation Theology (2008) (4)
The aesthetics of dissent: Culture and politics of transformation in the Arab world (2020) (4)
‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī and the intellectual climate of his times (2020) (4)
Body‐less faces: Mutilating modernity and abstracting women in an “Islamic cinema” (1998) (3)
Re‐reading reality: Kiarostami's through the Olive trees and the cultural politics of a postrevolutionary aesthetics (1995) (3)
Authority in Islam (1989) (3)
Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker (2008) (3)
Ignaz Goldziher and the Question Concerning Orientalism 1 (2017) (3)
Ideology and Revolution in Iran (1991) (3)
Nimā Yusij and the constitution of a national subject (2003) (3)
Resisting the empire (2008) (3)
Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: the philosopher/vizier and the intellectual climate of his times (2020) (2)
The Rise of Humanism in Islam and the West, with Special Reference to Scholasticism (1992) (2)
Shirin Neshat : la última palabra : the last word (2005) (2)
Black and White People : To Page 128 — Note 6 (2017) (2)
On Nations without Borders (2021) (2)
Reversing the Colonial Gaze (2019) (2)
The Shu‘ūbiyya (2017) (1)
But There Is Neither East nor West (2013) (1)
Sufi Symbolism , by Javād Nurbakhsh, translated by Leonard Lewisohn and Terry Graham. (The Nurbakhsh Encyclopedia of Sufi Terminology, vol. 1.) 228 pages, appendix, bibliography, index of Persian and Arabic terms, general index. Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, London1984. $25.00. (1988) (1)
Truth and Narrative (2018) (1)
Shiite Islam: The Theology of Dicontent@@@The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shiite Iran from the Beginning to 1890.@@@Frm Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam. (1986) (1)
The Shu‘ūbiyya and its Manifestation in Scholarship (2017) (1)
Parviz Sayyad's Theater of Diaspora: Two Plays : The Ass and the Rex Cinema Trial (1993) (1)
The Revolutions of Our Time: Religious Politics in Modernity@@@Modern Islamic Political Thought@@@Religion and Politics in Iran: Shicism from Quietism to Revolution.@@@Revolutionary Islam in Iran: Popular Liberation or Religious Dictatorship. (1984) (1)
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2021) (1)
The Last Muslim Intellectual (2021) (1)
3. Sir William Jones, Orientalist Philology, and Persian Linguistic Nationalism (2015) (0)
Chapter Ten: The End of the West (2016) (0)
“Islamic Ideology”: The Perils and Promises of a Neologism (2019) (0)
Ali Shari‘ati: The Islamic Ideologue Par Excellence (2017) (0)
Chapter Seven: A Transnational Public Sphere (2016) (0)
An Iranian Childhood (2023) (0)
In memoriam: Edward W. Said (2003) (0)
Ayatollah Khomeini: The Theologian of Discontent (2017) (0)
Sayyid Mahmud Taleqani: The Father of the Revolution (2017) (0)
Din, Dowlat and Donya: Rethinking Worldliness (2013) (0)
5 On Nations without Borders (2021) (0)
Time to speak out (2010) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1989) (0)
Arab and Ajam (2017) (0)
Chapter Six: Invisible Signs (2016) (0)
Arabicized Persians as Arabic Poets : To Page 150 (2017) (0)
12. Persica Spiritualis: Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and Their Consequences (2015) (0)
Introductory: Muruwwa and Din (2017) (0)
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes: Who Watches the Watchers? (2008) (0)
The End of Two Illusions (2022) (0)
Her Husband Jalal (2021) (0)
2. Montesquieu, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Rise of Persian Liberal Nationalism (2015) (0)
Travelling In and Out of a Homeland (2021) (0)
Chapter Eight: Cosmopolitan Worldliness (2016) (0)
Language, Status, and Power William O. Beeman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986, xx + 255 pp., bibliography (p. 213), notes (p. 236) and indices (p. 224). (1988) (0)
Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism.Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr (1996) (0)
Muhammad’s Charismatic Authority: Towards an Equivalent Islam Typology (2017) (0)
In and out of a Homeland (2020) (0)
‘Something of an Autobiography’ (2021) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1988) (0)
5. The Lure and Lyrics of a Literature The Center and Periphery of the Timurid Empire (1370– 1506) (2012) (0)
Taliqani’s Qur’anic Exegesis: Elements of a Revolutionary Discourse (1992) (0)
Mīr Dāmād and the founding of the “School of Iṣfahān” (2020) (0)
1. Distant Memories of the Biblical and Classical Heritage (2015) (0)
The Arab Tribes and Islam (2017) (0)
Interstitial Space of the Art of Protest (2020) (0)
Conclusion: Toward a Hermeneutics of Alterity (2013) (0)
3. The Prose and Poetry of the World The Rise of Literary Humanism in the Seljuqid Empire (1038– 1194) (2012) (0)
AfterwordPalestine without Borders (2018) (0)
Editorial: Found in Translation (2013) (0)
Morteza Motahhari: The Chief Ideologue of the Islamic Revolution (2017) (0)
Conclusion: Truth and Narrative (2018) (0)
Responses to the “Left” and Other Accounts of the Situation (2017) (0)
Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Hossein Tabataba’i: The Philosophical Dimensions of “the Islamic Ideology” (2017) (0)
Chapter One: Persian Empire? (2016) (0)
A Colonial Officer Is Turned Upside-Down (2020) (0)
Mirza Abu Taleb Travels from India (2020) (0)
The Creative Crisis of the Subject (2017) (0)
Paradise Delayed: With Hany Abu‐Assad in Palestine (2010) (0)
Mehdi Bazargan: The Devout Engineer (2017) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1988) (0)
Traditions About the Turks (2017) (0)
2. The Persian Presence in the Early Islamic Empires Resisting Arabic Literary Imperialism (750–1258) (2012) (0)
The Use of the Kunya as a Means of Paying Respect (2017) (0)
“The Fate of Mankind Is Again Closely Intertwined with the Fate of Russia” (2023) (0)
7. Edward FitzGerald and the Rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian Nihilism (2015) (0)
The Green Movement, the Palestinian Cause, and Racism (2017) (0)
The Emperor is Naked (2020) (0)
Islam and globalization (2008) (0)
Pilgrims’ Progress: On Revolutionary Border-Crossing (2017) (0)
6. The Contours of a Literary Cosmopolitanism Treading over Multiple Empires (1501– 1732) (2012) (0)
Establishment of Muhammad’s Charismatic Authority: Emergence of a New Order (2017) (0)
Gharbzadegi: The Condition of Coloniality (2021) (0)
The Charismatic Revolution as a Reconstitution of a Moral Demand System and an Originator of New Paradigmatic Patterns of Authority (2017) (0)
Chapter Two: A Civil Rights Movement (2016) (0)
Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of 'Ayn al-Qudat (1999) (0)
10. Picturing Persia in the Visual and Performing Arts (2015) (0)
Introduction: ‘The Last Muslim Intellectual’ (2021) (0)
The Foundations of Sunnite Authority: The Routinization of Charisma (2017) (0)
The Master Essayist (2021) (0)
US Politics, Iran, and the Green Movement (2017) (0)
6. Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the Making of a Persian Dionysus (2015) (0)
Remembrance of Things Past (2021) (0)
On Exilic Intellectuals 1 (2017) (0)
Chapter Four: An Aesthetic Reason (2016) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1986) (0)
The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, Said Amir Arjomand, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, xi + 210 pp., appendixes, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index to p. 283, hardback $21.95. (1990) (0)
Shi'ism and Social Protest. Edited by Juan R. I. Cole and Nikki R. Keddie. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 325 pp. $40.00 cloth. $12.95 paper (1987) (0)
The Foundations of Shicite Authority: The Perpetuation of Charisma (2017) (0)
On the Veneration of the Dead in Paganism and Islam (2017) (0)
Edward said's re‐presentation of the intellectuals (1994) (0)
Pagan and Muslim Linguistic Usage : To Page 37 — Note 2 (2017) (0)
Islamic Republic Tactics in Staging Legitimacy (2017) (0)
Jalal Al-e Ahmad: The Dawn of “the Islamic Ideology” (2017) (0)
Chapter Twelve: Mythmaker, Mythmaker, Make me a Myth (2016) (0)
Chapter Eleven: Damnatio Memoriae (2016) (0)
8. Matthew Arnold, Philosophical Pessimism, and the Rise of Iranian Epic Nationalism (2015) (0)
Conclusion Literary Humanism as an Alternative Theory to Modernity (2012) (0)
The Emperor is Naked: On the Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State (2020) (0)
Malcolm X as a Muslim revolutionary (2008) (0)
9. James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the Rise of a Proxy Public Sphere (2015) (0)
Language of Revolt: Islamic Revolutionary Discourse@@@Fundamentals of Islamic Thought: God, Man, and the Universe.@@@What Is to be Done? The Englightened Thinkers and an Islamic Renaissance. (1988) (0)
Chapter Five: Shi’ism at Large (2016) (0)
Legitimacy Challenges to the “Islamic Republic” (2017) (0)
Traditional Arab Authority: An Established Order (2017) (0)
The Foundations of Kharijite Authority: The Dissemination of Charisma (2017) (0)
7. The Dawn of New Empires Literary Humanism in Search of Itself (1736– 1924) (2012) (0)
Breaking the Binary (2013) (0)
Towards a New Organicity (2017) (0)
The Nature and Political Consequences of the Green Movement (2017) (0)
Conclusion: What Time Is It? (2016) (0)
1. The Dawn of an Iranian World in an Islamic Universe The Rise of Persian Language and Literature (632– 750) (2012) (0)
From a Short Life to a Lasting Legacy: Towards a Post-Islamist Liberation Theology (2021) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1986) (0)
Introduction. The Making of a Literary Humanism (2012) (0)
Endosmosis: Knowledge without Agency, Empire without Hegemony 1 (2017) (0)
Battle of the Old and the Charismatic (2017) (0)
Highlights of the Events (2017) (0)
“The Fate of Humanity Is Once Again Tightly Linked to That of Russia” (2022) (0)
Abolhasan Bani-Sadr: The Monotheist Economist (2017) (0)
The Green Movement and Iran’s Contemporary Political History (2017) (0)
Chapter Nine: Fragmented Signs (2016) (0)
Introduction: Muslims in the World (2013) (0)
Translating the World (2021) (0)
Symbiosis of Religious and Political Authorities in Islam (2020) (0)
5. From Romanticism to Pan- Islamism to Transcendentalism (2015) (0)
Introduction: The Rebirth of a Nation (2016) (0)
Chapter Three: A Metamorphic Movement (2016) (0)
The Muslim Cosmopole (2013) (0)
What is Meant by ‘Al-Jähiliyya’ (2017) (0)
Conclusion: Changing the Interlocutor (2017) (0)
4. The Triumph of the Word The Perils and Promises of the Mongol Empire (1256– 1353) (2012) (0)
Israel as Absolute State (2016) (0)
"The Onslaught of Colonialism" An appendix to "The End of Islamic Ideology (2000) (0)
“Religion—Quote, Unquote” (2013) (0)
Eruptions: NYC MustTagAliens (2011) (0)
11. E. G. Browne, Persian Literature, and the Making of a Transnational Literary Public Sphere (2015) (0)
Conclusion: Dimensions of “The Islamic Ideology” (2017) (0)
4. Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and Company (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
The End of the West and the Birth of the First Postcolonial Person (2016) (0)
I Am Not a Subalternist 1 (2017) (0)
Introduction: Formative Forces of “the Islamic Ideology” (2017) (0)
8. The Final Frontiers New Persian Literary Humanism (1906 to the Present) (2012) (0)
Man and Islam Ali Shari'ati. Translated by Fatollah Marjani. Houston: Filing, 1981, xxi, 128 pp. $4.95. (1987) (0)
Prologue “Istanbul was our past, Istanbul is our future” : from Aljazeera (2017) (2017) (0)
Conclusion: A Postmortem (2012) (0)
Voice, Vision, and Veiling (2012) (0)
Trauma, Memory and History (2015) (0)

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