Siavash Saffari is an assistant professor of West Asian Studies at Seoul National University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the University of Alberta, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Co...More
Siavash Saffari is an assistant professor of West Asian Studies at Seoul National University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the University of Alberta, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. His research and teaching interests include: Middle Eastern and Islamic politics; modern Islamic political and philosophical thought; comparative political theory; modern Iranian social and intellectual history; and modernity/coloniality/decoloniality. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in such journals as Sociology of Islam; Middle East Critique; Contemporary Islam; Journal of Humanities; Review of Radical Political Economics; and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He is the co-editor of Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts (2017), and the author of Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought (2017). The latter book received the Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association's Foundations of Political Theory Section.
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