Ali Mirsepassi

Ali Mirsepassi
Born	(1950-10-27)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 advisor	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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

External links

Ali Mirsepassi publications indexed by Google Scholar