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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Saïd Amir Arjomand is an Iranian-American scholar and Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, Long Island, and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Chicago.

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Mystical Dimensions of Islam. (1978) (599)
The shadow of God and the hidden Imam : religion, political order, and societal change in Shiʿite Iran from the beginning to 1890 (1987) (162)
The Law, Agency, and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century (1999) (148)
The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran.@@@Insurgency Through Culture and Religion: The Islamic Revolution of Iran. (1988) (140)
From nationalism to revolutionary Islam (1984) (93)
Iran's Islamic Revolution in Comparative Perspective (1986) (63)
The Ulama's traditionalist opposition to parliamentarianism: 1907–1909 (1981) (58)
THE REFORM MOVEMENT AND THE DEBATE ON MODERNITY AND TRADITION IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN (2002) (57)
THE CONSTITUTION OF MEDINA: A SOCIOLEGAL INTERPRETATION OF MUHAMMAD'S ACTS OF FOUNDATION OF THE UMMA (2009) (52)
After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors (2009) (51)
The political dimensions of religion (1994) (46)
Authority and political culture in Shiʿism (1988) (45)
Constitutions and the struggle for political order: a study in the modernization of political traditions (1992) (41)
Rethinking civilizational analysis (2006) (36)
Islam, Political Change and Globalization (2004) (36)
The Shiʿite Hierocracy and the State in Pre-modern Iran: 1785–1890 (1981) (35)
The state and Khomeini's Islamic order (1980) (29)
Coffeehouses, Guilds and Oriental Despotism. Government and Civil Society in Late 17th to Early 18th Century Istanbul and Isfahan, and as seen from Paris and London (2004) (27)
Law, Political Reconstruction and Constitutional Politics (2003) (25)
Shi'ite Islam and the Revolution in Iran (1981) (22)
The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiʿism: A Sociohistorical Perspective (1996) (22)
Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government (2001) (21)
Religion, Political Action and Legitimate Domination in Shiʿite Iran: fourteenth to eighteenth centuries a.d. (1979) (19)
Civil society and the rule of law in the constitutional politics of Iran under Khatami (2000) (19)
Traditionalism in Twentieth-century Iran (1984) (18)
Middle Eastern Constitutional and Ideological Revolutions and the Rise of Juristocracy (2012) (16)
The rule of law, Islam, and constitutional politics in Egypt and Iran (2013) (16)
The Salience of Political Ethic in the Spread of Persianate Islam (2008) (16)
The Consolation of Theology: Absence of the Imam and Transition from Chiliasm to Law in Shiʿism (1996) (13)
The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a ShiIte Hierocracy in Safavid Iran (1985) (13)
From the Editor: Defining Persianate Studies (2008) (13)
History, Structure, and Revolution in the Shi'ite Tradition in Contemporary Iran (1989) (13)
The Political Dimensions of Religion. (1994) (12)
Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies (2010) (11)
Legitimacy and political organisation: caliphs, kings and regimes (2010) (11)
‘Abd Allah Ibn Al‐Muqaffa’ and the ‘Abbasid revolution (1994) (11)
Constitutional politics in the Middle East : with special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan (2008) (11)
Worlds of difference (2013) (10)
Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction (2007) (9)
Evolution of the Persianate Polity and its Transmission to India (2009) (9)
Unity of the Persianate World under Turko-Mongolian Domination and Divergent Development of Imperial Autocracies in the Sixteenth Century (2016) (8)
The Rise and Fall of President Khātami and the Reform Movement in Iran (2005) (8)
Persianate Islam and Its Regional Spread (2017) (7)
12 The Office of Mulla-Bashi in Shiʿite Iran (2016) (7)
Transformation of the Islamicate Civilization: A Turning-Point in the Thirteenth Century? (2004) (7)
15 Religious Extremism (Ghuluw), Ṣūfism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501–1722 (2016) (7)
Axial civilizations, multiple modernities, and Islam (2011) (7)
Multiple Modernities and the Promise of Comparative Sociology (2013) (7)
IRANIAN SOCIETY. An Anthology of Writings by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Compiled and Edited by Michael C. Hillmann Lexington, Kentucky: Mazda Publishers, 1982. 157 pp. (1982) (7)
Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation: Imami Shiʿism Circa 280-90 A. H./900 A. D.Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation: Imami Shiism Circa 280-90 A. H./900 A. D (1997) (7)
A Decade of Persianate Studies (2015) (6)
The Islam and Democracy Debate after 2011 (2013) (6)
Messianism, Millennialism and Revolution in Early Islamic History (2002) (6)
Democracy and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan (2003) (6)
Sociology of Shiʿite Islam: Collected Essays (2016) (6)
The Rule of God in Iran (1989) (6)
Chapter One. Constitutional development and political reconstruction from nation-building to new constitutionalism (2007) (5)
Southern Theory : an Illusion - Raewyn Connell, Southern Theory. The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2007). (2008) (5)
Democratization and the constitutional politics of Iran since 1997 (2001) (5)
Has Iran's Islamic Revolution Ended? (2009) (5)
The Challenge of Integrating Social Theory and Regional Studies (2014) (4)
The Arab revolution of 2011 in comparative perspective (2012) (4)
Introduction: Social Movements in the Contemporary Near and Middle East (1984) (4)
The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a Shiite Hierocracy in Safavid Iran: A Study in Historical Sociology (1985) (4)
The Revolution in Iran (1980) (3)
State Formation In Early Modern Muslim Empires: Common Origin And Divergent Paths (2016) (3)
Did Inequality Breed the Arab Uprisings? Social Inequality in the Middle East from a World Perspective (2015) (3)
Revolution: Structure and Meaning in World History (2019) (3)
Islamic resurgence and its aftermath (2000) (3)
Marx and the End of Orientalism@@@Marxism and Other Western Fallacies (1981) (3)
Developmental Patterns And Processes In Islamicate Civilization And The Impact Of Modernization (2010) (3)
Religion and ideology in the constitutional revolution (1979) (2)
Coffeehouses, Guilds & Oriental Despotism: Government & Civil Society in late- 17 th -early 18 th Century Istanbul and Isphahan, and as seen from Paris & London (2003) (2)
A Demographic Theory of Revolution; or, Sociology as Sorcery?@@@Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. (1992) (2)
America in a New Age of Global Conflict: A Middle Eastern Perspective (2005) (2)
The 1906-07 Iranian Constitution and the Constitutional Debate on Islam (2012) (2)
The Conception of Revolution in Persianate Political Thought (2012) (2)
Constitutional Implications of Current Political Debates in Iran (2009) (2)
Roots of North Indian Shiʿism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1772-1859@@@Roots of North Indian Shiism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1772-1859 (1991) (2)
14 The Rise of Shah Esmāʿil as a Mahdist Revolution (2016) (2)
The Emergence and Development of Persianate Sufism: Khorasan, Ninth to Twelfth Centuries (2020) (1)
Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World@@@Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History (1984) (1)
The Iranian Islamic Clergy: Governmental Politics and Theocracy, (1984) (1)
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of Its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers.Hanna Batatu (1982) (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 Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East Summary Report (2013) (1)
Authority and Political Culture in Shiʿism@@@Authority and Political Culture in Shiism (1993) (1)
Asef Bayat, Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017). Pp. 308. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9781503602588 (2018) (1)
DEVELOPMENTAL PATH (ENTWICKLUNGSFORM):: A NEGLECTED WEBERIAN CONCEPT AND ITS USEFULNESS IN THE CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ISLAM (2016) (1)
Iran: The Constitution of Iran: Politics and the State in the Islamic Republic (1999) (1)
Chapter 5. Revolution in Early Islam: The Rise of Islam as a Constitutive Revolution (2007) (1)
The rise of interdisciplinary studies in social sciences and humanities and the challenge of comparative sociology (2017) (1)
Sujata Patel (ed.), The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, Sage: London, 2010; 366 pp.: ISBN 9781847874023, £93.00 (2011) (1)
Artaxerxes, Ardašīr, and Bahman@@@Artaxerxes, Ardasir, and Bahman (1998) (1)
16 Ideological Revolution in Shiʿism (2016) (0)
Five. The Last Roman Integrative Revolution (2019) (0)
Review Essay: Persianate Political Thought and Islam (2019) (0)
18 Shiʿite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2016) (0)
Revolution and Constitution-Making in the Arab World and Iran (2014) (0)
Office of Mulla-bashi in shiite Iran (1983) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
Reviews: Religion and Society: Armando Salvatore, The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 293 pp., ISBN 9781403974730 (hbk), US$80, (pbk), US$30 (2010) (0)
5 Shiʿite Theodicy, Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering (2016) (0)
9 Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran (2016) (0)
Macrohistory of the legal transformations in Iran from the reception of Turk-Mongolian law to the inception of legal modernization (2020) (0)
Land Reform and Social Change in Iran.Afsaneh Najmabadi (1989) (0)
Book Reviews (1983) (0)
Religion and Revolution in Iran@@@Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in the Pahlavi Period.@@@Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution. (1982) (0)
Six. Rise of the Sasanian Empire: A Feudal Integrative Revolution in Late Antiquity (2019) (0)
The Revolution Which Toppled the Umayyads. Neither Arab nor ‘Abbasid, Saleh Said Agha, Leiden: Brill, 2003, ISBN 90-04-12994-4, xxvii + 325 pp., 2 appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. (2006) (0)
Nine. The Papal Revolution and Its Export: The Crusades (2019) (0)
Anatomies of Revolution (2021) (0)
Muslim Puritans: Reformist Psychology in Southeast Asian Islam.James L. Peacock (1980) (0)
India in the Persianate World (2019) (0)
Chapter 9. Islam and the Path to Modernity: Institutions of Higher Learning and Secular and Political Culture (2007) (0)
Hodgson, Gellner and Eisenstadt As Pioneers of Islamicate Civilizational Analysis (2016) (0)
From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond (2021) (0)
Introduction. Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems (2020) (0)
Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace. By Arang Keshavarzian. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 302. $85.00. (2009) (0)
AKBAR GANJI, Talaqqi-yi fashisti az din va hukumat. Asibshinasi-yi guzar bi-dawlat-i dimuk- ratik-i tawsi'ih-gira (The Fascist Interpretation of Religion and Government: Pathology of Transition to the Democratic and Development-oriented State) (Tehran: Tarh-i Naw, 2000). (2002) (0)
Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam (2022) (0)
The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980.Lisa Anderson (1987) (0)
Thinking Globally about Islam (2006) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
Book Review: Nader Sohrabi, Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran (2015) (0)
Islam and Revolution in the Middle East. Henry Munson, Jr.Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village. Reinhold Loeffler (1990) (0)
Introduction. Revolution in Comparative and Historical Sociology (2019) (0)
Volume Information (1995) (0)
Origins and Development of Apocalypticism and Messianism in Early Islam: 610-750 CE Prepared for the Congress of the International Committee of the Historical Sciences (2000) (0)
From the Editor (2001) (0)
8 Political Ethic and Public Law in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (2016) (0)
13 Shiʿite Jurists and Iran’s Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century (2016) (0)
Heinz Halm, Shi a Islam: From Religion to Revolution , trans. Allison Brown (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1997). Pp. 188. (1999) (0)
The Search for Fundamentals and Islamic Fundamentalism (1995) (0)
Ten. The Mongolian Integrative Revolution in Eurasia (2019) (0)
Book Review:Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi'ite Islam Hossein Modarressi (1995) (0)
Max Weber and Islam. Edited by Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1999. Pp. viii+332. $34.95 (2001) (0)
Reviews (2009) (0)
From World Religions to Axial Civilizations (2018) (0)
Introduction: Shiʿite Islam as a World Religion, Its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action (2016) (0)
Sacred Space and Holy War. The Politics, Culture and History of Shi‘ite Islam, Juan Cole, London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002, ISBN 1-86064-736-7 (paper) viii + 254 pp. (2004) (0)
World Religions and Axial Civilizations. Part II (2016) (0)
From the Editor (2003) (0)
1 Introduction: Social Movements in the Contemporary Near and Middle East (0)
Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions; Axial Civilizations and World History (2006) (0)
Eight. Islam’s Integrative Social Revolution (2019) (0)
Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation (2018) (0)
Epilogue. Revolutions of the Last Hundred Years in the Light of My Typology (2019) (0)
19 Shiʿite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution (2016) (0)
Richard W. Bulliet, Islam: The View from the Edge (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994). Pp. 236. (1995) (0)
Conclusion. World-Historical and Theoretical Significance of Premodern Revolutions (2019) (0)
10 Hosayn B. Ruh al-Nawbakhti, the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam (2016) (0)
Introduction to Worlds of Difference (2013) (0)
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions by John Foran (2006) (0)
Four. Revolution in the Roman Principate and Its Transformation into Imperial Constitutional Autocracy (2019) (0)
Volume Information (1982) (0)
Manichæism as a World Religion of Salvation and Its Influence on Islam (2022) (0)
James A. Bill, The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988). Pp. 538. (1990) (0)
2 The Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shiʿism (2016) (0)
The Shiʻis of Iraq. Yitzak Nakash (1997) (0)
Religion and Political Modernization.Donald E. Smith (1978) (0)
6 Hierocratic Authority in Shiʿism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran (2016) (0)
A century of Shiʿi constitutionalism (2009) (0)
Two. The Athenian Constitutive Revolution and Subsequent Revolutions of Ancient Greece (2019) (0)
Nobuaki Kondo: Islamic Law and Society in Iran. A Social History of Qajar Tehran. (Royal Asiatic Society Books.) xii, 196 pp. London: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978 0 415 71137 1. (2018) (0)
MALLAT, CHIBLI, The Renewal of Islamic Law. Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shiʿi International (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. xii + 245. £ 30.00. ISBN 0 521 43319 3. (1995) (0)
Book Review:Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam Steven M. Wasserstrom (1997) (0)
Further Thoughts on Developmental Patterns in the Islamicate Civilization (2014) (0)
Revolutions of the End of Time: Apocalypse, Revolution and Reaction in the Persianate World (2022) (0)
4. Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State (2018) (0)
The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East Arabic Summary Report (2015) (0)
7 Three Decrees of Shah Tahmāsp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shiʿite Iran (2016) (0)
Origins and Development of Apocalypticism and Messianism in Early Islam, 610-760 CE (2002) (0)
Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran. Daniel Brumberg (2002) (0)

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