10
October 2009
Curriculum vitae
Saïd Amir Arjomand
36 W.69th Street , Apt. 3A Department of Sociology
New York, New York 10023 SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356
Telephones: (631)632 7746 (Office); (646)682 7016 (Home); (646)315 4471 (Cell)
Fax: (631)632 8203
E-mails:
Date of Birth: December 26, l946
Education:
B.A. Honors (Economics), University of Sussex, England, l968
M.A. (Sociology), University of Chicago, l976
Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Chicago, l980
Languages:
Classical Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Persian and reading knowledge of Spanish.
Academic Appointments:
Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology, State University of
New York at Stony Brook 2004-
Director, Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies 2008-
Assistant Professor to Professor, SUNY, Stony Brook 1978-88
Visiting Fellow in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University 2006-08
Inaugural Martin & Kathleen Crane Fellow and Visiting Professor
of Public Affairs, the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University 2004-5
Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala Fall 1998
R.D. Sharpe Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, the
Divinity School of the University of Chicago 1993-94
Visiting Professor of Sociology and Development
Studies, the University of California, Berkeley Fall l989
Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1984-85
Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University 1981-82
Professional Service:
Founder and Acting President, the Association for the Study of
Persianate Societies (ASPS) 1996-2000
President, ASPS 2000-02
2006-09
Editor–in-Chief, Studies on Persianate Societies 2000-05
Founding Editor, Journal of Persianate Studies 2007-
Editorial Board, Iran and the Caucasus 2008-
External reviewer for applications, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2003-05
Editor of International Sociology, the Journal of the International
Sociological Association 1999-2004
Editor, State University of New York Press Series in Near Eastern Studies
(including the History of al-Tabari in 40 volumes) 1983-2000
Guest Editor, Journal of Iranian Studies, 27.1-4 1994
(special issue on “Religion and Statecraft in Pre-modern Iran”)
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Macmillan 2003
Member of Editorial Boards of : a) ASA Rose Series in Sociology 2005-6
b) Social Forces 2004-05
c) Journal of Iranian Studies 1991-98
d) Studies in Historical Social Change 1985-90
e) State University of New York Press 198l-84
Member of the Council of the Society for Iranian Studies 1982-84
Secretary-Treasurer, Historical and Comparative Section, the ASA 1987-90
Member of the Committee on World Sociology of the ASA 1990-93
Served on the National Science Foundation panels
Grants:
Carnegie Scholarship ($100,000) 2006-08
The National Science Foundation for the project "Constitutional
Law and Political Modernization in the Islamic Middle East" ($248,594) 1996-99
ASPS Travel Fellowship Program, the Open Society Institute
Several annual grants ($310,300) 1998-2008
Small grants for ASPS and the Journal of Persianate Studies ($65,000) 2007-08
Grants for Organizing the ASPS Biennial Conventions in
Dushanbe, Yerevan & Tbilisi, the Open Society Institute ($112,000) 2002,-04,-07
ASPS Project for Institutional Development, the Rockefeller
Foundation ($207,982) 1998-2002
United States Institute for Peace ($40,000) 1992-94
Gerda Henkel Foundation (DM 72,000) 1990-91
Ford Foundation ($46,000) 1987-88
Research Fellowship, the SSRC and the ACLS 1979-80 & 1981-82
Books:
The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Organization and Societal Change in Shi`ite Iran from the Beginning to l890, The University of Chicago Press, 1984. (Reissued: 2010)
(The New Republic's Best Book, March 1985; excerpts reprinted in H. Nasr, H. Dabashi and V. Nasr, eds., Expectation of the Millennium: Shi`ism in History, State University of New York Press, 1989, pp. 177-87, 194-210.)
From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, edited with an introduction. Foreword by Ernest Gellner. Macmillan and State University of New York Press, 1984.
Authority and Political Culture in Shi`ism, edited with an introduction, State University of New York Press, 1988.
The Turban for the Crown. The Islamic Revolution in Iran, Oxford University Press, 1988.
(Editor's Choice, The New York Times Book Review, Aug. 7, 1988; Ch. 10 reprinted in Six Theories of the Islamic Revolution’s Victory, Tehran: Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, 2000.)
The Political Dimensions of Religion, edited with an introduction, State University of New York Press, 1993.
Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, edited with Edward A. Tiryakian, London: Sage Publishers, 2004.
Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction, edited with an introduction, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007.
Constitutional Politics in the Middle East with special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, edited with an introduction, Oxford and Portland: Hart Publishing, 2008.
After Khomeini: Iran under his Successors, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Law, Constitution and Society in the Islamic Middle East, in preparation for the University of California Press.
Revolution in World History, in preparation under contract for the University of Chicago Press.
The Hour is Near, the Moon is Split. Millennialism, Revolution and Tradition in Islam, in preparation for Oxford University Press.
The Rule of Law, Islam and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, edited with Nathan J. Brown submitted for publication to Hart Publishing.
Articles and Chapters:
"Modernity and Modernization as Analytical Concepts: An Obituary," Communications and Development Review, 1.2-3 (1977); pp. 16-20.
"Religion, Political Action and Legitimate Domination in Shi`ite Iran: 14th to 18th Centuries A.D.," Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology , 20.1 (1979), pp. 59-109.
(The feature article of the volume accordingly entitled Hidden God, Visible Cleric; excerpted in Nasr, Dabashi and Nasr, eds., Expectation of the Millennium, pp. 107-14.)
10
"The Shi`ite Hierocracy and the State in Pre-Modern Iran: 1785-1890," Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, 22.1 (1981), pp. 40-78.
"Religious Extremism (Ghuluww), Sufism and Sunnism in Safavid Iran: 1501-1722," Journal of Asian History, 15.1 (1981), pp. 1-35.
"The `Ulama's Traditionalist Opposition to Parliamentarianism: l907-l909," Middle Eastern Studies, 17.2 (1981); pp. 174-90.
"The State in Khomeini's New Islamic Order," Iranian Revolution in Perspective, special issue of Iranian Studies, 13.1-4 (1980), pp. l47-64.
"Shi`ite Islam and the Revolution in Iran," Government and Opposition, 16.3 (1981); pp. 293-3l6.
(Partial French translation as "Chi`isme et mobilisation des masses" by the French Government in La Documentation Française, Problèmes politiques et sociaux, 457 [11 February 1983], pp. 16-19.)
"A la recherche de la conscience collective: The Ideological Impact of Durkheim in Turkey and Iran," The American Sociologist, 17.2 (1982), pp. 94-102.
The Office of Mullā-bāshi in Shi`ite Iran," Studia Islamica, 57 (1983), pp. 135-46.
"Introduction: Social Movements in the Contemporary Near and Middle East," in From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, pp. 1-27.
"Traditionalism in Twentieth Century Iran," in From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam, pp. 195-232. (Excerpts anthologized in Nasr, Dabashi and Nasr, eds., Expectation of the Millennium, pp. 229-38.)
"The Clerical Estate and the Emergence of a Shi`ite Hierocracy in Safavid Iran: a Study in Historical Sociology," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 28 (1985), pp. 169-219.
"Religion, Political Order and Societal Change with Special Reference to Shi`ite Islam," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 6 (1985), pp. 1-15.
"The Causes and Significance of the Iranian Revolution," State, Culture and Society, 1.3 (1985), pp. 41-66.
A number of articles in the national press between 1980 and 1986 under the pen name of Sharif Arani.
"Iran's Islamic Revolution in Comparative Perspective," World Politics, 38.3 (1986), pp. 383-414.
(Reprinted in the International Library of Politics and Government, Revolution and Political Change, A.J. Groth,ed., Dartmouth Publishers, 1996, pp. 379-410)
"Social Change and Movements of Revitalization in Contemporary Islam," in James Beckford, ed., New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change, Sage Publications, 1986, pp. 87-112.
"Revolution in Shi`ism," in W. R. Roff, ed., Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning, the University of California Press, l987, pp. 111-31.
10
"Introduction: Shi`ism, Authority and Political Culture," in Authority and Political Culture in Shi`ism, pp. l-22.
"The Mujtahid of the Age and the Mullābāshi: An Intermediate Stage in the Institutionalization of Religious Authority in Shi`ite Iran," in Authority and Political Culture in Shi`ism, pp. 80-97.
"Ideological Revolution in Shi`ism," in Authority and Political Culture in Shi`ism, pp. 178-209.
"Two Decrees of Shah Tahmasp Concerning Statecraft and the Authority of Shaykh 'Ali al-Karaki," in Authority and Political Culture in Shi`ism, pp. 250-262.
"La règle de Dieu en Iran," Les Temps Modernes, XLIII.502 (May 1988), pp. 103-15.
"The emergence of Islamic Political Ideologies," in James A. Beckford and Thomas Luckmann, eds., The Changing Face of Religion, Sage Publications, l989, pp. 109-23.
"Constitution-Making in Islamic Iran: The Impact of Theocracy on the Legal Order of a Nation-State," in J. Collier and J. Starr, eds., History and Power in the Study of Law, Cornell University Press, 1989, pp. 113-27.
"History, Structure and Revolution in Shiite Tradition in Contemporary Iran," International Political Science Review, 10.2 (1989), pp. l09-l7.
"The Rule of God in Iran," in the special issue on Iran, Social Compass, 36.4 (l989), pp. 539-548.
"A Victory for the Pragmatists: the Islamic Fundamentalist Reaction in Iran," in J. Piscatori, ed., Islamic Fundamentalisms and the Gulf Crisis, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991, pp. 52-69.
"Constitutions and the Struggle for Political Order: A Study in the Modernization of Political Traditions," Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, 33.4 (1992), pp. 39-82.
(Winner of the American Sociological Association's 1993 Award in Comparative and Historical Sociology ; reprinted in Şerif Mardin, ed., Cultural Transition in the Middle East, E.J. Brill, 1994, pp. 1-49.)
"Constitutional Revolution. (iii) The Constitution," Encyclopedia Iranica, Vol. 6 (1992), pp. 187-92.
(Persian translation as “Qānun-e asāsi,” in P. Matin, tr., Enqelāb-e mashrutiyyat, Tehran: Amir Kabir, 2003/1382, pp. 99-113.)
"Constitution of the Islamic Republic," Encyclopedia Iranica, Vol. 6 (1992), pp. 150-58.
"Shi`ite Jurisprudence and Constitution-Making in the Islamic Republic of Iran," in M. Marty and R.S. Appleby, eds., Fundamentalisms and the State. Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, the University of Chicago Press, 1993, pp. 88-109.
"Plea for an Alternative View of Revolution," Contention. Debates in Society, Culture and Science, 2.2 (1993), pp. 171-83.
(Reprinted in N.R. Keddie, ed., Debating Revolution, New York University Press, 1995, pp. 142-54.)
10
"Teoriha-ye enqelab va enqelabha-ye iran, auropa-ye sharqi va asia-ye markazi" (Theories of Revolution and the Contemporary Revolutions in Iran, Central Europe and Central Asia), Mehregan, 2.1 (1993), pp. 37-50.
"Qavanin-e asasi-ye iran dar chaharcheba-ye tatbiqi" (Iran's Fundamental Laws in Comparative Perspective," Negah-e Naw, 16 (1993), pp. 6-20.
"Religion and the Diversity of Normative Orders," in The Political Dimensions of Religion, pp. 43-68.
"Religion and Constitutionalism in Western History and in Modern Iran and Pakistan," in The Political Dimensions of Religion, pp. 69-99.
"Millennial Beliefs, Hierocratic Authority and Revolution in Shi`ite Iran," in The Political Dimensions of Religion, pp. 219-39.
"Introduction: Religion and Statecraft in Pre-modern Iran," Journal of Iranian Studies, 27.1-4 (1994), pp. 5-8.
"‘Abd Allah ibn al-Muqaffa‘ and the ‘Abbasid Revolution," Journal of Iranian Studies, 27.1-4 (1994), pp. 9-36.
"The Search for Fundamentals and Islamic Fundamentalism," in L. van Vucht Tijssen, J. Berting and F. Lechner, eds., Modernization and the Search for Fundamentals, Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer, 1995, pp. 27-39.
"Unity and Diversity in Islamic Fundamentalism," in M. Marty and R.S. Appleby, eds., Fundamentalisms Comprehended, the University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 179-98.
"Religious Human Rights and the Principle of Legal Pluralism in the Middle East," in J. van der Vyver and J. Witte, eds., Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective, Vol. 2: Legal Perspectives, M. Nijhoff, 1996, pp. 331-347.
"Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi`ism: a Sociohistorical Perspective," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 28.4 (1996): pp. 491-515.
(Reprinted in Etan Kohlberg, ed, Shi`ism, London: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 109-133; and in Bryan S. Turner, ed., Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology, New York & London: Routledge, 2003, vol. 2)
"The Consolation of Theology: The Shi`ite Doctrine of Occultation and the Transition from Chiliasm to Law," Journal of Religion, 76.4 (1996): pp. 548-571.
“Iran,” in the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, 1995, 2003.
"Mas'uliyyat-e akhlāqi dar siyāsat" (Ethical Responsibility in Politics), Goft-o-Gu, 12 (1375/1996), pp. 141-52.
"Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation: Imami Shi`ism around 900 CE/280-290 AH," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 117.1 (1997): pp. 1-12
"Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classical Period," in B. McGinn, ed., The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, New York: Continuum, vol. 2, 1998, pp. 238-83.
10
"Philanthropy, the Law and Public Policy in the Islamic World before the Modern Era," in W. Ilchman, S.N. Katz & E.L. Queen, eds., Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions, University of Indiana Press, 1998, pp. 109-32.
“Ardašir, Artaxerxes and Bahman,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 118.2 (1998), pp. 245-48.
“Khomeini,” in J. Goldstone, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1998, pp. 289-90.
“Baha’i,” “Iran,” and “Revolutions,” in R. Wuthnow, ed., The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 55-56, 376-78; vol. 2, 643-54. (Updated in 2005)
"The Law, Agency and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 41.2 (1999), pp 263-93.
"International Sociology into the new Millennium: The Global Sociological Community and the Challenge to the Periphery,” International Sociology, 15.1 (2000), pp. 5-10
Russian translation in СОЦИС (Sociological Studies, the Review of the Russian Academy of Sciences), No. 10 (2000), pp. 10-13.
“Civil Society and the Rule of Law in the Constitutional Politics of Iran under Khatami,” Social Research, 76.2 (2000), pp. 283-301.
“Hoquq-e asāsi-ye Irān va tahavvolāt-e bistsāleh-ye ān,” Irān-nāmeh , 18.2 (2000), pp. 11-25.
“Islam, Politics and Iran in Particular,” in M. Silk, ed, Religion on the International News Agenda, Hartford, CT: Trinity College, 2000, pp. 60-77.
“India’s Contribution to Persianate Political Culture,” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. Millennium (61st) Session, 2000-2001, 2001, Part 1, pp. 267-75.
“Gayba,” in Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 10 (2000), pp. 341-44.
“Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government,” International Sociology, 16.3 (2001), pp. 455-73.
(Reprinted in Rethinking Civilizational Analysis)
“Authority in Shi`ism and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” in W. Ende & R. Brunner, eds., The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture & Political History, Leiden: Brill, 2001, pp. 301-32.