Ali Gheissari

Ali Gheissari (born 1954) is an Iranian historian and sociologist. He is adjunct professor of history at the University of San Diego and visiting professor of religious studies at Brown University. He is known for his works on the intellectual history and politics of modern Iran and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Iranian Studies.[1][2][3][4]

Ali Gheissari
Born1954
NationalityIranian
EducationSt. Antony’s College, University of Oxford (PhD)
Scientific career
Fieldshistory of modern Iran
InstitutionsUniversity of San Diego
ThesisThe Ideological Formation of the Iranian Intelligentsia: From the Constitutional Movement to the Fall of the Monarchy (1989)

Works
  • Alwishah, Ahmed; Gheissari, Ali; Walbridge, John (2017). Illuminationist Texts and Textual Studies: Essays in Memory of Hossein Ziai. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-35658-0.
  • Gheissari, Ali (2009). Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537849-8.
  • Tabriz and Rasht in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, ed., Tehran, 2008
  • Gheissari, Ali; Nasr, Vali (2006). Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-804087-3.
  • Gheissari, Ali (1995). Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-72804-2.
  • Kant on Time and Other Essays, Tehran, 2018
  • Persian translation of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics, with Hamid Enayat, Tehran, 1991; new edition, 2015
  • Manfred Frings et al., Max Scheler and Phenomenology, tr., Tehran, 2015

References
  1. Rahnema, Ali (1 September 1999). "Iranian intellectuals in the twentieth century". Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies. 8 (15): 121–126. doi:10.1080/10669929908720153. ISSN 1066-9922.
  2. Rahimi, Babak (1 December 2010). "Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics". Iranian Studies. 43 (5): 751–755. doi:10.1080/00210862.2010.518593. ISSN 0021-0862. S2CID 153483804.
  3. "Strange Times". www.brown.edu.
  4. "Biography - Ali Gheissari, PhD". University of San Diego.
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