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      Kings and Dervishes

      Said Amir Arjomand

      Said Amir Arjomand's Kings and Dervishes is a pioneering study of the emergence and development of Sufism during the formation of the Persianate world. Whereas Sufi doctrine was expressed in…

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      Revolutions of the End of Time: Apocalypse, Revolution and Reaction in the Persianate World

      Said Amir Arjomand

      A study of Mahdist movements focusing on abrupt discontinuities, revolutions as apocalyptic breaks, and on the reaction of the ruling authorities as counter-revolution, as reversion to continuity within a single…

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      Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction

      Said Amir Arjomand

      This book offers a unique interdisciplinary comparison of the dominant trends in constitutional developments and legal change across different regions of the world in the last half century, bringing together…

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      Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: Collected Essays

      Said Amir Arjomand

      Sociology of Shi'ite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shi'ism from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through its establishment as Iran’s national religion in the…

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      Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age

      A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.

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      Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age

      A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.

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      The Arab Revolution of 2011: A Comparative Perspective

      Comparative analysis of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.

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      The Arab Revolution of 2011: A Comparative Perspective

      Comparative analysis of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.

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      The Political Dimensions of Religion

      Sociologists and political scientists look at the relationship between religion and politics in the modern world, considering fundamentalist Jewish, Christian, and Muslim movements. The 11 papers, which grew out of…

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      The Political Dimensions of Religion

      Sociologists and political scientists look at the relationship between religion and politics in the modern world, considering fundamentalist Jewish, Christian, and Muslim movements. The 11 papers, which grew out of…

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      Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism

      The major theme of this book is authority in Shi'ism with special emphasis on its institutionalization in different historic periods from the beginning of Shi'ism in the Middle Ages to…

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      Authority and Political Culture in Shi'ism

      The major theme of this book is authority in Shi'ism with special emphasis on its institutionalization in different historic periods from the beginning of Shi'ism in the Middle Ages to…

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      Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

      This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East.

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      Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With special reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

      This book is the first comparative and interdisciplinary study of constitutional politics and constitution-making in the Middle East.

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      Sociology of Shi'ite Islam: Collected Essays

      Said Amir Arjomand

      Sociology of Shi'ite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shi'ism from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through its establishment as Iran’s national religion in the…

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      Revolution: Structure and Meaning in World History

      Said Amir Arjomand

      Arjomand categorizes revolutions in two groups: ones that expand the existing body politic and power structure, and ones that aim to erode-but paradoxically augment-their authority.

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      Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam

      Said Amir Arjomand

      This study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of Islam and its sociopolitical revolutions from Muhammad’s constitutive revolution in Arabia to…

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      Studies on Persianate Societies

      Studies on Persianate Societies is an interdisciplinary publication that offers original research on the culture and civilisation of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or…

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      From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond

      Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

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      From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond

      Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

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      The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran

      Comparative study of Islam and the rule of law in Egypt and Iran.

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      The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran

      Comparative study of Islam and the rule of law in Egypt and Iran.

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      The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890

      Said Amir Arjomand,Center for Middle Eastern Studies

      Dismissing oversimplified and politically-charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern…

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      After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors

      Said Amir Arjomand (Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies, Stony Brook University)

      Said Amir Arjomand paints a subtle and perceptive portrait of contemporary Iran. This work, a sequel to Arjomand’s acclaimed The Turban for the Crown, examines Iran under the successors of…

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      The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran

      Said Amir Arjomand (Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Fellow, the Institute for Advanced Study)

      The Iranian revolution still baffles most Western observers. Few considered the rise of theocracy in a modernized state possible, and fewer thought it might result from a popular revolution. This…

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      The Dialogical Turn: New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age

      ‘The Dialogical Turn’ considers an alternative to the established sociological theories of synthesis in response to the crisis of intellectual fragmentation. The ‘dialogical turn’ instead welcomes a plurality of orientations…

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      Democracy and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan

      Khaled M.Abou El Fadl,Said Amir Arjomand,Nathan Brown,Jerrold D. Green,Donald L. Horowitz

      In 2003, RAND called together experts in Islamic law, constitution writing and democracy, and with specific country and regional expertise. Drawing on the realities of Afghanistan’s situation and experiences of…

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