Saïd Amir Arjomand

Works

Books

• After Khomeini, Iran under his Successors, Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age, edited, SUNY Press, 2013.
• Worlds of Difference, co-edited, Sage, 2013.
• The Rule of Law, Islam and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, edited with Nathan J. Brown, State University of New York Press, 2013.
• Constitutional Politics in the Middle East, edited with an introduction, London: Hart Publishers, 2008.
• Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction, edited with an introduction, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007.
• Rethinking Civilizational Analysis, edited with Edward A. Tiryakian, London: Sage Publishers, 2004.
• The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Organization and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890, the University of Chicago Press, 1984
• The Turban for the Crown. The Islamic revolution in Iran, Oxford University Press, 1988
• The Political Dimensions of Religion, edited with an introduction, State University of New York Press, 1993.

  Important Articles

• The Kingdom of Jurists: Constitutionalism in Iran, in Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity pp. 327 - 335.
• Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies,” Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, 51.3, pp. 363-99.
• Islamic Resurgence and Its Aftermaths,” being Ch. 4 of The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6, 2010, pp. 173-197.
• Legitimacy and Political Organisation: Caliphs, Kings and Regimes,” being Ch. 7 of The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4, 2010, pp. 225–73.
• Developmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of Modernization, in Hans Joas & Barbro Klein, eds., The Benefit Of Broad Horizons: Intellectual And Institutional Preconditions For A Global Social Science,Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 205–26.
• Islam, Political Change and Globalization, Thesis Eleven, 76, pp. 5–24.
• Rationalization, the Constitution of Meaning and Institutional Development, in C. Camic & H. Joas, eds., The Dialogical Turn. New Roles for Sociology in the Post-Disciplinary Age, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, pp. 247–74.
• Coffeehouses, Guilds & Oriental Despotism: Government & Civil Society in late-17th-early 18th Century Istanbul and Isfahan, and as seen from Paris & London, Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, 45.1, pp. 23–42.
• Social Theory and the Changing World: Mass Democracy, Development, Modernization and Globalization, International Sociology, 19.3, pp. 321–53.
• Modernita, tradizione e la riforma schi`ita nell Iran contemporanea, Sociologia del diritto, XXVIII.2.
• The Reform Movement and the Debate on Modernity and Tradition in Contemporary Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies.
• Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government, International Sociology, 16.3, pp. 461–480.
• Authority in Shi`ism and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in W. Ende & R. Brunner, eds., The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture & Political History, Leiden: Brill, 2000, pp. 301–332.
• Civil Society and the Rule of Law in the Constitutional Politics of Iran under Khatami, Social Research, 76.2, pp. 283–301.
• The Law, Agency and Policy in Medieval Islamic Society: Development of the Institutions of Learning from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 41.2, pp 263–293.
• Islamic Apocalypticism in the Classical Period, in B. McGinn, ed., The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, New York: Continuum, vol. 2, 1998, pp. 238–283.
• The Consolation of Theology: The Shi`ite Doctrine of Occultation and the Transition from Chiliasm to Law, 76.4 : pp. 548–571.
• Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi`ism: a Sociohistorical Perspective, International Journal of Middle East Studies 28.4 : pp. 491–515.
• Unity and Diversity in Islamic Fundamentalism, in M. Marty and R.S. Appleby, eds., Fundamentalisms Comprehended, the University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 179–198.
• Religious Human Rights and the Principle of Legal Pluralism in the Middle East, in J. van der Vyver and J. Witte, eds., Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective'', Vol. 2: Legal Perspectives, M. Nijhoff, 1995, pp. 331–347.

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