Ahmad Sadri is a Professor of Sociology

Sociology

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 and Anthropology

Anthropology

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 at Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College

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. He has been the James P. Gorter Professor of Islam

Islam

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ic World Studies since 2007. Sadri received a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 and Master of Arts

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in Sociology from Tehran University, an MA and PhD

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 from the New School for Social Research. He is an active member of the reform movement in Iran.

Sadri has written more than one hundred articles for scholarly journals and dozens editorials for venues such as "Daily Star

Daily Star (Lebanon)

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" of Lebanon

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. In the US he has appeared many times in public forums and in the media.

Books

Max Weber's Sociology of Intellectuals, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. (English)

Apocalypse Tomorrow and other Essays: Investigations in Sociologies of Religion and Politics, Translated to Persian by Amirhossein Teymoori, Kavir Press, Tehran, March, 2007.

The Necessity of Reviving The Concept of Civilization in Social Sciences, Tehran: Hermes and Center for the Dialogue of Civilizations, 2001. (Persian).

Books translated

Saddam City by Mahmoud Saeed

Mahmoud Saeed

Mahmoud Saeed is an Iraqi-born American award-winning novelist.Born in Mosul, Saeed has written more than twenty novels and short story collections, and hundreds of articles. He started writing short stories at an early age. He wrote an award-winning short story in the Newspaper “Fatal Iraq,...

, London, Saqi Books, 2004. Translated from Arabic.

Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam: Essays by Abdolkarim Soroush, New York, Oxford University Press 2000, Co-translated from Persian with Mahmoud Sadri.