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Iranian-American sociologist (born 1946)

Saïd Amir Arjomand (Persian: سعید امیر ارجمند, b. 26 December 1946) is an Iranian-American scholar and Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, Long Island,^[1] and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies.

He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Chicago.

Arjomand is the founder and former president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)^[1] and founding Editor of the Journal of Persianate Studies.^[2]

Works

Books

• 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
• Rethinkin