[Sorry, this page needs updating real bad! I will try. I have done a lot since 2005!]
Book in progress: "The rescularization of the State in Iran"
MESA Conference, 2005 Rational and Legal in Shi'ism
(Chair and presenter)
MESA Conference, 2002: "Shi'ism at the Safavid Age."
I functioned as the discussant at the panel. The papers offered in this panel will be published by the Mage publishers.
MESA Conference, 2001 "The Transformation of the Jurisprudence and the Seminary in Post-revolutionary Iran"
I functioned as the Chair, the discussant, and also offered a paper named "The Evolution of the Jurisprudence in Post-revolutionary Iran."
GULF 2000
I am actively involved with the Gulf 2000 listserve. Incidentally I found on the Web that one of my comments on Ayatollah Taheri is forwarded to another party. I copied the link to show the type of contribution I make to this valuable and highly scholarly listserve.
The Shi'ite Clergy
Paper presented in SSIPS, Binghamton University "The Evolution of Clerical Structure in Post-Revolutionary Iran," 2000. This is a part of my ongoing research on the clergy in Iran.
Ibn-Khaldun
Paper Presented at SSIPS, Binghamton Unversity "The Historical Sociology of Ibn-Khaldun," 1999
Education
Rasool Nafisi, "Education and the Culture of Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran," in Farsoun and Mashayekhi, 1992. This article was several times translated and quoted. I will do more work on education in Iran shortly.
An Exchange with Bernard Lewis in 1992:
in 1992 Bernard Lewis, the foremost living historian of the Middle East, wrote an article stating that Islam is a tolerant religion, specially when compared to Christianity. I took issue with that argument, which ended up in an exchange in "The New York Review of Books." I met him again in 2002 in a conference where he debated Khaled Abu-Fadel. I asked him again about tolerance in Islam "of course you become tolerant when you are in power" he answered. I felt that he might have modified his previous position.
A 1980 commentary published in "Comparative Education Review"
This is a rejoinder/commentary on education in the Third World.