Iranian-American sociologist and political science
Ali Mirsepassi
Born (1950-10-27 ) October 27, 1950Education 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]
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran, Edinburgh University Press, 2023
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan , Cambridge University Press, 2021
Iran's Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State , Cambridge University Press, 2019
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
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