Beyond Eurocentric Social Theory: The Nomadic Intellectual on Religion, Culture and the State

The author of many monographs, edited collections, and essays, Seyed Javad Miri has been a major influence in social sciences and humanities. His significant contributions disrupted prevailing narratives surrounding critical issues, including nationality, identity, secularism, religion, and modernity. In Beyond Eurocentric Social Theory: The Nomadic Intellectual on Religion, Culture and the State, the contributors illustrate different dimensions of Seyed Javad Miri’s oeuvre and demonstrate how his scholarship bridge the Eastern and Western intellectual traditions and foster a dialogue at the global level between Iranian intellectual history, Islamic philosophy and Western social theory. Contributors are: Joseph Alagha, Syed Farid Alatas, Ali Almasizand, Krikor Ankeshian, Dustin J. Byrd, Ramze Endut, Meisam Ghavehchian, Carimo Mohomed, Michael Naughton, Aditya Nigam, Hossein Roohani, Mehdi Shariati, and Esmaeil Zeiny.