Samman specializes in world historical/comparative sociology, urban sociology,
globalization, the sociology of religion and classical and modern sociological theory. 

He can talk about religion and classical and modern sociological theory and sacred space
and nationalism in comparative perspective, particularly as it pertains to Rome (Italy),
Mecca (Saudi Arabia) and Jerusalem (Israel). 

EDUCATION: BA George Washington University 1988, MA SUNY Binghamton 1996, PhD SUNY
Binghamton 2001

Books

Islam and the Modern Orientalist World-System (with Mazher al-Zo'by) (2008)
 

Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested Sacred World Cities (2006)
from spawning an age of tolerance, modernity has created the social basis of division and...
 

Contributions to Books/Essays

The Convergence of World Historical Social Science, The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge (2002)