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According to Wikipedia, Nikki R. Keddie is an American scholar of Eastern, Iranian, and women's history. She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Keddie was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. at Radcliffe College, her M.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at University of Arizona and Scripps College in Claremont, California, before joining University of California, where she taught mainly Middle Eastern and Iranian history and eventually became full professor.

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Women in the Muslim World (1978) (226)
An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Political and Religious Writings of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din "al-Afghani" (1969) (170)
Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran. (1981) (155)
Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution (2003) (144)
The New Religious Politics: Where, When, and Why Do “Fundamentalisms” Appear? (1998) (129)
Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (2000) (121)
Religion and Rebellion in Iran: The Tobacco Protest of 1891-1892 (1967) (113)
Women in Middle Eastern history: Shifting boundaries in sex and gender (1993) (79)
Religion and Irreligion in Early Iranian Nationalism (1962) (77)
Women in the Middle East: Past and Present (2006) (71)
The Iranian Village before and after land reform (1968) (66)
Shi'Ism and Social Protest (1986) (63)
Problems in the Study of Middle Eastern Women (1979) (63)
Beginnings of modernization in the Middle East : the nineteenth century (1969) (62)
Sayyid Jamāl ad-Dīn 'al-Afghānī' : a political biography (1975) (61)
Iranian Revolutions in Comparative Perspective (1983) (59)
The Iranian Power Structure and Social Change 1800–1969: An Overview (1971) (54)
The Revolt of Islam, 1700 to 1993: Comparative Considerations and Relations to Imperialism (1994) (51)
Scholars, saints, and Sufis : Muslim religious institutions in the Middle East since 1500 (1975) (51)
Class structure and political power in Iran since 1796 (1978) (49)
The past and present of women in the Muslim world. (1990) (48)
Pan-Islam as Proto-Nationalism (1969) (45)
Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization (1956) (42)
Neither East nor West : Iran, the Soviet Union, and the United States (1990) (41)
Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran (1981) (39)
Secularism & its discontents (2003) (34)
Women in Iran since 1979 (2000) (34)
Qajar Iran and the rise of Reza Khan, 1796-1925 (1999) (32)
Iranian politics 1900–1905: background to revolution (1969) (32)
Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution. (1995) (31)
Religion and politics in Iran : Shiʿism from quietism to revolution (1966) (30)
Iran: Religion, Politics and Society (1980) (27)
Iran and the surrounding world : interactions in culture and cultural politics (2002) (25)
The midas touch: black gold, economics and politics in Iran today (1977) (25)
IRAN UNDER THE LATER QĀJĀRS, 1848–1922 (1991) (25)
THE ORIGINS OF THE RELIGIOUS-RADICAL ALLIANCE IN IRAN (1966) (24)
The New Religious Politics and Women Worldwide: A Comparative Study (2010) (24)
Symbol and Sincerity in Islam (1963) (24)
Modern Iran: The Dialectics of Continuity and Change (1981) (23)
The Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic (1984) (23)
Religion and Rebellion in Iran: The Iranian Tobacco Protest of 1891-1982 (1966) (21)
Iran: Change in Islam; Islam and Change (1980) (21)
Ideology, Society and the State in Post-Colonial Muslim Societies (1995) (20)
On history in the twentieth century (2006) (20)
Is There A Middle East? (1973) (19)
The Pan‐Islamic appeal: Afghani and Abdülhamid II (1966) (19)
Iranian Women's Status and Struggles since 1979 (2007) (18)
Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (2011) (18)
Iran and beyond : essays in Middle Eastern history in honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000) (17)
The Foreign Policy of Iran 1500-1941: A Developing Nation in World Affairs (1970) (16)
WOMEN IN THE LIMELIGHT: SOME RECENT BOOKS ON MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN'S HISTORY (2002) (15)
Secularism and the State: Towards Clarity and Global Comparison (2019) (15)
Iran: Religion, Politics and Society: Collected Essays (2013) (12)
Male breast tumors. (1967) (12)
Oil, economic policy, and social conflict in Iran (1979) (12)
Stratification, Social Control, And Capitalism In Iranian Villages: Before And After Land Reform (1972) (11)
The economic history of Iran, 1800–1914, and its political impact an overview (1972) (10)
Arab and Iranian Revolts 1979–2011: Influences or Similar Causes? (2012) (10)
Islam and Society in Minangkabau and in the Middle East: Comparative Reflections (1987) (9)
The Iranian revolution & the Islamic Republic (1986) (8)
Material Culture and Geography: Toward a Holistic Comparative History of the Middle East (1984) (7)
A Woman's Place: Democratization in the Middle East (2004) (7)
Debating gender, debating sexuality (1996) (7)
Islamic Philosophy and Islamic Modernism: The Case of Sayyid Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Afghānī (1968) (7)
Continuity and change in modern Iran (1981) (7)
Can Revolutions be Predicted: Can Their Causes be Understood? (1995) (6)
The Islamist Movement in Tunisia (1986) (6)
Western Rule Versus Western Values: Suggestions for Comparative Study of Asian Intellectual History (1959) (5)
Iran: The Impact of United States Interests and Policies 1941-1954 (1972) (5)
Bibliography of Books (2007) (5)
British Policy and the Iranian Opposition 1901-1907 (1967) (4)
Introduction: Innovative Women: Unsung Pioneers of Social Change (2008) (4)
Labor Problems of Pakistan (1957) (4)
The End of the Cold War and the Middle East (1992) (4)
Women in Iran: An Online Discussion (2001) (3)
Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran: With a Section by Yann Richard (1986) (3)
Islamic Revival as Third Worldism (1995) (3)
Oman Since 1856: Disruptive Modernization in a Traditional Arab Society. By Robert Geran Landen; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967. Pp; xv, 488. $12.50. (1969) (3)
Women in the Middle East (2012) (3)
The French Revolution and the Middle East (1995) (3)
Shi‘ism and Revolution (1995) (3)
Adhesions are not always postoperative. (1988) (3)
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi (2007) (3)
The Agricultural Policy of Muḥammad ‘Alī in Egypt. By Helen Anne B. Rivlin. (Harvard Middle Eastern Studies, 4.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1961. Pp. xvii, 393. $8.00 (1962) (3)
The Minorities Question in Iran (1995) (3)
Religion and Politics in Iran. Shiism from Quietism to Revolution (1985) (3)
Innovative Women: Unsung Pioneers of Social Change (2008) (2)
Anthologie de la Litterature arabe Contemporaine: Les essais. (1967) (2)
THE ADVENT OF IDEOLOGY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST (2016) (2)
The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations James A. Bill (1990) (2)
Ties That Bind: A Social History of the Iranian Carpet (1996) (2)
The New Religious Politics and Women Worldwide (1999) (2)
Scholars, Saints, and Sufis: Muslim Religious Institutions in the Middle East since 1500 (1976) (2)
The Iranian revolution and the Islamic Republic : proceedings of a conference (1982) (1)
Nikki Keddie: Pakistan's Movement Against Islamization (1987) (1)
Culture traits, fantasy, and reality in the life of Sayyid Jamal Al‐din Al‐afghani (1976) (1)
An assessment of American, British, and French works since 1940 on modern Iranian history (1973) (1)
The End of the Cold War: The End of the Cold War and the Middle East (1992) (1)
Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996, 255 pp., index, bibliography. (1999) (1)
Why Has Iran Been Revolutionary? I (1995) (1)
COMMENT ON CYRUS SCHAYEGH, “‘SEEING LIKE A STATE’: AN ESSAY ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MODERN IRAN” (IJMES 42 [2010]: 37–61) (2010) (1)
Iran and the Middle East (1995) (1)
Introduction: Issues in Studying Middle Eastern Women’s History (2007) (1)
Iran: The Illusion of Power. By Robert Graham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Pp. 228. $16.50 (1979) (1)
Phillip Emeritz Feminine Power in the Ottoman Harem (2013) (1)
The Economic History of the Middle East, 1800–1914: A Book of Readings . Edited by Charles Issawi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966. Pp. xv, 543. $12.50. (1967) (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)
Religion and State in Iran 1785-1906: The Role of the Ulama in the Qajar Period (1972) (1)
Women and Religious Politics in the Contemporary World (1999) (1)
The Iranian Revolution and U.S. Policy (2012) (1)
Iranian politics 1900–05: background to revolution—III (1969) (1)
The Qashqa'i people of Southern Iran (1981) (1)
The Economic History of Iran 1800–1914 and its Political Impact (2013) (0)
Book Review:The Political Dimensions of Religion Said Amir Arjomand (1997) (0)
I. Regional Background and the Beginnings of Islam (2007) (0)
Shi’ism: Myth and Reality — Religion and Secularism (1995) (0)
Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, Gavin R.G. Hambly, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, 566 pp., bibliography, index. (2000) (0)
III. From the Turkish and Mongol Invasions to 1798 (2007) (0)
Book Notices: ISLAMICS (1984) (0)
Postscript: Revolt, Resistance, and Gender in the Muslim World (1995) (0)
Fabric of Revolution (1983) (0)
Book Reviews: Elise G. Young, Gender and Nation Building in the Middle East: The Political Economy of Health fromMandate Palestine to Refugee Camps in Jordan (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012), 224 pp. ISBN 978-18-48-85481-9 (2012) (0)
Part 1. Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (2007) (0)
MANSOUR BONAKDARIAN. Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911: Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and Dissent. (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 2006. Pp. xlix, 577. $75.00 (2008) (0)
RMS volume 38 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2004) (0)
Women in the Middle East: Progress and Backlash (2008) (0)
Why Has Iran Been Revolutionary? II: Multi-Urbanism in Iran’s Revolts and Rebellions (1995) (0)
Money and Ethics in Middle East Studies (1982) (0)
VI. 1945–Today: New States and Trends, Women’s Activism, and the Rise of Islamism (2007) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
Fundamentalism and Gender: 1875 to the Present.@@@Fundamentalism and Gender. (1994) (0)
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate@@@Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1993) (0)
V. 1914–45: Nationalism and Women’s Movements (2007) (0)
Islam, Politics, and Revolt: Some Unorthodox Considerations (1995) (0)
What Recent History Has Taught Iranians1 (2004) (0)
Part 2. Scholarship, Relativism, and Universalism (2007) (0)
Comments on Skocpol (1982) (0)
Bibliography of Works by Nikki R. Keddie since 1995 (2007) (0)
Parvin Paidar. Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran. (Cambridge Middle East Studies, number 1.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xvi, 401. $59.95 (1997) (0)
Part 5. Sexuality and Shi′i Social Protest in Iran (coauthored with Parvin Paidar [Nahid Yeganeh]) (2007) (0)
Afghani in Afghanistan (1965) (0)
The Traditional Crafts of Persia: Their Development, Technology, and Influence on Eastern and Western Civilizations. By Hans E. Wulff Cambridge: MIT Press, 1968. $25.00. (1968) (0)
Iran: At War with History John W. Limbert. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, xviii, 186 pp., index. $28.00. (1987) (0)
The Prison Papers of Bozorg Alavi: A Literary Odyssey. By Donne Raffat. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1985. xi + 246 pp.; no index or bibliography. (1986) (0)
Part 3. Women in the Limelight: Recent Books on Middle Eastern Women’s History since 1800 (2007) (0)
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in the Pahlavi Period. By Shahrough Akhavi. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1980. Pp. xix + 225. $29.00, cloth; $9.95, paper.) (1981) (0)
Part 1. Autobiographical Interview (2007) (0)
Notes to Book One (2007) (0)
Women and Islam (1981) (0)
Iranian Imbroglios Revisited (2008) (0)
Reflections on the Iranian Revolution and its Influence in the Muslim World (1995) (0)
E. Kedourie/S.G. Haim (Eds.). Towards a Modern Iran: Studies in Thought, Politics and Society. Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass/Biblio Distribution Centre, viii + 262 pages. $29.50 (1981) (0)
II. From the Pious Caliphs through the Dynastic Caliphates (2007) (0)
A Better World (2001) (0)
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Keith David Watenpaugh: Being Modern in the Middle East (2005) (0)
5. The History of the Muslim Middle East (2020) (0)
Persian Carpets, by Michael Craig Hillmann, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984, 98 pp. index to p. 112. (1989) (0)
A. Albert Kudsi-Zadeh, Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī: An Annotated Bibliography (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1970), pp. xxii + 118. (1972) (0)
1. Introduction: Deciphering Middle Eastern Women's History (2017) (0)
Editors' Note: Women and Religious Politics (2010) (0)
to the of the with Leading (2013) (0)
Correspondence (2000) (0)
Iran: Religious Orthodoxy and Heresy in Political Culture (1982) (0)
The Politics of Iran: Groups, Classes and Modernization . By James Alban Bill. (Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1972. Pp. ix, 174. $3.95 paper.) (1973) (0)
7 Egypt : Nonviolent Resistance in the Rise of a Nation-State , 1805 – 1922 125 (2013) (0)
Culture and politics in Iran since the 1979 revolution (2000) (0)
Part 2. Supplement to the Interview (2007) (0)
Women's Status, Feminist Consciousness, and Studies about African Women (1980) (0)
Humans, Nature, and Birds (2017) (0)
The Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic: Conference Proceedings (1983) (0)
IV. Change in the Long Nineteenth Century 1798–1914 (2007) (0)
Preliminary Program for Middle East Studies Association Third Annual Meeting (1969) (0)
Shi’ism, Resistance, and Revolution Martin Kramer, ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, x, 324 pp., index. (1987) (0)

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