Shahrough Akhavi is currently Professor in the Department of Political Science at
the University of South Carolina. He received his B.A. from Brown University (1962), his
M.A. from Harvard University (1964) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1969). Akhavi
has conducted field research in Iran and Egypt in the sociology of Islam and social
theory under grants from the Ford Foundation (1975), the National Endowment for the
Humanities (1980-81), Fulbright Senior Scholar Program (1991), and Social Science
Research Council (1998). He has served the profession in various capacities: President,
Society for Iranian Studies, 2002-2003; Chairman, Nominating Committee, Society for
Iranian Studies, 1997-98, Member Nominating Committee of the Middle East Studies
Association [MESA] in 1989-1990 and 2000-2001; Member, Program Committee, Biennial
Conference on Iranian Studies, 2003-2004; Member Program Committee, Biennial Conference
on Iranian Studies, 2001-2002; Member, Albert Hourani Book Award Committee, MESA 1993-94.

Area Studies

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Sunni Modernist Theories of Social Contract in Contemporary Egypt, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2003)
 

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Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity, by Robert D. Lee, International Journal of Middle East Studies (1998)
 

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The Dialectic in Contemporary Egyptian Social Thought: The Scripturalist and Modernist Discourses of Sayyid Qutb and Hasan Hanafi, International Journal of Middle East Studies (1997)
 

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Islam, the People and the State: Essays on Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East, by Sami Zubaida, International Journal of Middle East Studies (1995)
 

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Authority and Political Culture in Shicism, ed. Said Amir Arjomand, International Journal of Middle East Studies (1990)
 

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Political Science

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Islamic Political Culture, Democracy, and Human Rights, by Daniel E. Price, American Political Science Review (2000)
 

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The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations, by James A. Bill, American Political Science Review (1990)
 

Anthropology, History, Sociology

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The Ideology and Praxis of Shi'ism in the Iranian Revolution, Comparative Studies in Society and History (1983)
 

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Egypt's Socialism and Marxist Thought: Some Preliminary Observations on Social Theory and Metaphysics, Comparative Studies in Society and History (1975)
 

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Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan, by Olivier Roy, Problems of Communism (1989)