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Najm Yousefi

PhD

Academic Profile

Associate Professor of History
California State University, Chico

Sample Publications

“The Paradox of ‘Scientific Revolution’ in Islamic Civilization,” Iran Namag 6.1 (2021): 163–77 (in Persian): معمای ”انقلاب علمی“ در تمدن اسلامی

“Confusion and Consent: Land Tax (Kharāj) and the Construction of Judicial Authority in the EarlyIslamic Empire (ca. 12–183 A.H./634–800 C.E.),” Sociology of Islam 7.2–3 (2019):1–41

“Division and Discord among the Shiʿa ʿUlamāʾ: New Lights on the Failure of the 1927 Anti-Conscription Movement in Iran,” Iranian Studies 50.5 (September 2017): 705–33

“Islam without Fuqahāʾ: Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and his Perso-Islamic Solution to the Caliphate’s Crisis of Political Legitimacy (70–142 AH/690–760 CE)” Iranian Studies 50 (2017): 9-44.

Field of Research

History of Islamic Science; History of the Middle East; Islamic Studies

Current Position

Associate Professor, California State University, Chico