Ali Mirsepassi
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Ali Mirsepassi | |
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Born | October 27, 1950 |
Education | American University (MA, PhD), University of Tehran (BA) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | New York University |
Thesis | The Historical and Structural Development of Labor Politics in Modern Iran (1985) |
Ali Mirsepassi (born 1950) is an Iranian-American sociologist and political scientist and Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University.[1]
Books[]
- Iran’s Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid’s Legacy, Cambridge University Press, 2018
- Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid, Cambridge University Press, 2017
- Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism, Cambridge University Press, 2014, co-author, with Tadd Fernee
- Political Islam, Iran and Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 2011
- Democracy in Modern Iran, New York University Press, 2010
- Intellectual Discourses and Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran, Cambridge University Press, 2000
- Truth or Democracy
- Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World, Syracuse University Press, 2002, coeditor
- Al Ghazali’s Alchemy of Happiness, forthcoming
- Iran’s Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press
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- American political scientists
- 1950 births
- American sociologists
- Iranian sociologists
- Iranian political scientists
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- University of Tehran alumni
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