Academic Profile
Comparative politics, political sociology, social theory, sociology of religion, social movements, Middle East politics
Sample Publications
THE MIDDLE EAST: THE POLITICS OF THE SACRED AND SECULAR. London: Zed, 2009
RELIGION AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN: CLERGY-STATE RELATIONS IN THE PAHLAVI PERIOD. Albany: SUNY Press, 1980.
"Contemporary Muslim Political Theory," in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, ed. George Klosko. New York: Oxford University Press. forthcoming
"Shi`i Theories of Social Contract," in SHARI`A: ISLAMIC LAW IN CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE. ed. Abbas Amanat and Frank Griffel. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. pp. 137-155.
"Sunni Modernist Theories of Social Contract in Contemporary Egypt," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, 35:1 (August 2003), pp. 23-49.
"Islam and the West in World History," THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY, 24:3 (June 2003), pp. 545-562.
"The Dialectics of Contemporary Egyptian Social Thought: The Traditionalist and Modernist Discourses of Sayyid Qutb and Hasan Hanafi," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, 29:3 (August 1997), pp. 377-401.
"Contending Discourses in Shi`ite Law on the Doctrine of Wilayat al-Faqih," IRANIAN STUDIES, 29:3-4 (Summer-Fall 1996), pp. 228-268.
"The Ideology and Praxis of Shi`ism in the Iranian Revolution," COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY, 25:2 (April 1983), pp. 195-211.
Scholarly Interests
Current Position
Professor of Political Science,
University of South Carolina