Ali Mirsepassi
Ali Mirsepassi | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 27, 1950 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran (BA) American University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | The Historical and Structural Development of Labor Politics in Modern Iran (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samih Farsoun, Jurg Siegenthaler, Ken Kusterer |
| Other advisors | Hamid Enayat |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Intellectual History, Sociology |
| Institutions | New York University |
Ali Mirsepassi (born 1950) is an Iranian-American sociologist and political scientist and the Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University.[1][2]
Books
- Mirsepassi, Ali; Fernée, Tadd Graham (2024). The Intellectual Thought of Al-Ghazālī. The Global Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009538114. ISBN 978-1-009-53816-9.
- Mirsepassi, Ali (2023). The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-3995-1141-4.[3]
- Mirsepassi, Ali (2019). Iran's Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State. The Global Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108641852. ISBN 978-1-108-48589-0.[4]
- Mirsepassi, Ali (2018). Iran's Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy. The Global Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108566124. ISBN 978-1-108-47639-3.[5]
- Mirsepassi, Ali (2017). Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid. The Global Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316941195. ISBN 978-1-107-18729-0.[6]
- Mirsepassi, Ali; Fernée, Tadd Graham (2014). Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781107284296. ISBN 978-1-107-05397-7.
- Mirsepassi, Ali (2010). Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change. New York University Press. doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814795644.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8147-6439-8.[7]
- Mirsepassi, Ali (2010). Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511975127. ISBN 978-0-521-76882-5.[8][9]
- Mirsepassi, Ali (2000). Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran. Cambridge Cultural Social Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511489242. ISBN 978-0-521-65000-7.[10][11]
Editorials
- Keshavarzian, Arang; Mirsepassi, Ali, eds. (2021). Global 1979: Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution. The Global Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108979658. ISBN 978-1-108-83907-5.
References
- ^ "Ali Mirsepassi". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ^ "Ali Mirsepassi – Iranian Studies Initiative". Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ^ Afary, Janet (January 2025). "The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran. Ali Mirsepassi (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). 256 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN 9781399511421". Iranian Studies. 58 (1): 179–181. doi:10.1017/irn.2024.61. ISSN 0021-0862.
- ^ Brew, Gregory (February 2023). "Iran's Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State Ali Mirsepassi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 242. 29.99 paper. ISBN: 9781108725323". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 55 (1): 193–194. doi:10.1017/S002074382300034X. ISSN 0020-7438.
- ^ Siavoshi, Sussan (August 2020). "Iran's Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy. Ali Mirsepassi, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 371. $125.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781108476393". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 52 (3): 573–575. doi:10.1017/S0020743820000586. ISSN 0020-7438.
- ^ Alimagham, Pouya (February 2018). "Ali Mirsepassi , Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid, The Global Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Pp. 498. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 9781107187290". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 50 (1): 163–165. doi:10.1017/S0020743817001143. ISSN 0020-7438.
- ^ Matin-asgari, Afshin (August 2011). "Ali Mirsepassi, Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change (New York: New York University Press, 2010). Pp. 224. $42.00 cloth". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 43 (3): 554–556. doi:10.1017/S0020743811000717. ISSN 1471-6380.
- ^ Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz (February 2013). "Ali Mirsepassi, Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Pp. 238. $39.95 cloth". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 45 (1): 181–183. doi:10.1017/S0020743812001481. ISSN 0020-7438.
- ^ Rahimi, Babak (May 2012). "Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment: Philosophies of Hope and Despair, Ali Mirsepassi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-76882-5, viii + 230 pp". Iranian Studies. 45 (3): 449–453. doi:10.1080/00210862.2011.638499. ISSN 0021-0862.
- ^ Sanadjian, Manuchehr (August 2001). "Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran, Ali Mirsepassi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xii+227 pp. (ISBNÊ0-521-65997-3)". Sociology. 35 (3) S003803850130041X: 785–805. doi:10.1017/S003803850130041X.
- ^ Ringer, Monica M. (September 2007). "Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran, Ali Mirsepassi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0521650003 (hard), ISBN 0521659973 (paper), 223 pp". Iranian Studies. 40 (4): 555–557. doi:10.1017/S0021086200017163. ISSN 0021-0862.
External links
Ali Mirsepassi publications indexed by Google Scholar