Monograph 

Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism and Islam in Iranian Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paperback reissue, 2019. [Co-winner of American Political Science Association’s Best First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory section] [Persian edition, translated by Ali Khalandi, published in Tehran: Andisheh, 2018]

Edited Book 

Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts (co-edited with Roxana Akhbari, Kara Abdolmaleki, and Evelyn Hamdon), Cambridge Scholars, 2017.

Journal Articles 

“Palestine, and the Colonial Unconscious of German Critical Theory” (co-authored with Azadeh Shabani), Middle East Critique, (Published online: 3 April 2025): 1–17.

“Post-Islamism and the Muslim Left: notes on Turkey and Iran,” Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 33, Issue 2 (2024): 368–384.

“Political Islam and Emancipatory Politics: Snapshots of Islamic Liberation Theology,” Politics, Religion & Ideology, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (2024): 52-69. 

“Tawhid Paradigm and an Inclusive Concept of Liberative Struggle,” Religions – The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology special issue, Vol. 14, Issue 9 (2023): 1088.

“Thought/Translation and the Situations of Decolonization” (co-authored with Arash Davari), Philosophy and Global Affairs, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2022): 105-135.

“Mystical Solidarities: Ali Shariati and the Act of Translation” (co-authored with Arash Davari), Philosophy and Global Affairs, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (2022): 91-104.

“Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Gharbzadegi and the Spirit of Bandung: A Decolonial Reimagination of Development in Mid-Twentieth Century Iran,” Asia Review – Asian Transformations and Futures special issue (pt. 2), Vol.12, Issue 1 (2022): 131-169.

“Introduction to the Special Issue: Asian Transformations and Futures” (co-authored with Edo Andriesse), Asia Review – Asian Transformations and Futures special issue (pt. 1), Vol.11, Issue 3 (2021): 3-14.

“Taqi Erāni, Bizhan Jazani, and a Marxian Framework for the Critique of Religion in Twentieth Century Iranian Political Thought,” Iranian Studies, Vol. 54, Issues 5–6 (2021): 859–877.

“Ali Shariati and Cosmopolitan Localism,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 39, Issue 2 (2019): 282-295.

“Orientalism, Eurocentricity, and Civilizational Thinking: Comparing Edward Said and Ali Shariati” (东方主义、欧洲中心主义与文明论思想: 阿里·沙里亚蒂与爱德华·萨义德之比较) (translated into Mandarin by Xiaoxiao Xie), Historiography Quarterly, No. 2 (2019): 17-24.

“Oscillating between ‘East’ and ‘West’: Muhammad Iqbal and an Islamic Recasting of Modernity,” Seoul National University Journal of Humanities, Vol. 75, Issue 4 (2018): 85-128.

“Two Pro-Mostazafin Discourses in the 1979 Iranian Revolution,” Contemporary Islam, Vol. 11, Issue 3 (2017): 287–301.

“Can the Subaltern be Heard?: Knowledge Production, Representation, and Responsibility in International Development,” Transcience Journal, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2016): 36-46.

“Rethinking the Islam/Modernity Binary: Ali Shariati and Religiously Mediated Discourse of Sociopolitical Development,” Middle East Critique, Vol. 4, Issue 3 (2015): 231-250.

“The Post-Islamist Turn and the Contesting Visions of Democratic Public Religion,” Sociology of Islam  –  Contemporary Social Movements in the Middle East and North Africa special issue, Vol. 2, Issue 3-4, (2014): 127-143.

Book Chapters 

“Postcolonialism: Rethinking the Past, Reimagining the Future” (탈식민주의, 과거를 다시 생각하고 미래를 다시 상상하다), in The Future of Humanities in the Digital Era (디지털 시대 인문학의 미래를 말하다). Seoul: Sapyoung (2024): 156-169. [pdf]

“R. İhsan Eliaçık: Anti-Capitalist Islamic Thought in Turkey,” in Smita A. Rahman, Katherine A. Gordy and Shirin S. Deylami, eds., Globalizing Political Theory. New York: Routledge (2023): 120-129.

“Introduction: Unsettling Colonial Modernity: Islamicate Contexts in Focus” (co-authored with Kara Abdolmaleki and Roxana Akhbari), in Siavash Saffari, Roxana Akhbari, Kara Abdolmaleki, and Evelyn Hamdon, eds., Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017): 1-25. 

“Charity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic Justice,”  in Peyman Vahabzadeh, ed.,  Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2017): 65-80. 

“Alternative Development(s), or Alternative(s) to Development?: Challenges and Prospects for Genuine Alternative-building,” in Nathan N. Andrews, Ernest Khalema, Temitope Oriola, and Isaac Odoom, eds.,  Africa Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2013): 40-51.

“Limitations of Dialogue: Conflict Resolution in the Context of Power Asymmetries and Neglected Differences,” in Mojtaba Mahdavi and W. Andy Knight, eds., Towards the Dignity of Difference?:  Neither End of History Nor Clash of Civilizations. London, UK: Ashgate, (2012): 245-260.

Translations (Persian to English)

“Faithful Life in an Urfi State” (co-translated with Mojtaba Mahdavi), by Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East  –  Secularism and Islamism: Iran and Beyond special issue, 31:1 (2011), 23-26.

“Pre-Secular Iranians in a Post-Secular Age; The Death of God, the Resurrection of God” (co–translated with Mojtaba Mahdavi), by Reza Alijani, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the  Middle East – Secularism and Islamism: Iran and Beyond special issue, 31:1 (2011), 27-33.

Book Reviews  

“Review of The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, by Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021),” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 54 , Issue 4 (2022): 802 – 804.

“Review of Khalil Maleki: The Human Face of Iranian Socialism, by Homa Katouzian (London: Oneworld Publications, 2018),” Iranian Studies, Vol. 54, Issues 5–6 (2021): 1005-1010.

“Review of India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.), by Kaveh Yazdani (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017),” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 51: Issue 1 (2019): 166-169.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Iqbal, Muhammad (1877–1938)” (co-authored with Bilgehan Yıldız), in Cenap Çakmak ed., Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia [4 volumes]. Santa Barbara, California and Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO (2017): 733-737. 

“Shariati, Ali (1933–1977)” in Cenap Çakmak ed., Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia [4 volumes]. Santa Barbara, California and Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO (2017): 1440-1442. 

“Qutb, Sayyid,” in Gregory Claeys ed., Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought  – Volume Two. Washington: SAGE / CQ Press, (2013): 663-664.

Other Works

“Korean Bulldozers Demolish Dream of Palestinian State,” The Korea Times, 22 August 2025

“The US-Israeli war machine goes to Iran,” The Korea Times, 24 June 2025 [pdf]

“Where is Palestine?,” The Korea Times, 10 April 2025 [pdf]

“As the threat of war with Iran looms, will the US rein in Israel?,” The Hankyoreh, 17 October 2024 [pdf] (translated into Korean by Shim Seong-hwan)

“Gaza, ‘If only I were a candle in the dark’,” The SNU Quill, 27 March 2024 [pdf]

“Do Palestinian Lives Matter?,” JoongAng Daily, 7 November 2023 [pdf]

“Iran: The Specter of War or the Prospect of Revolt?,” (translated into Korean by Gunha Kim) DiverseAsia (다양성+Asia), Issue 8 (2020)

Beyond Shariati interview, Jadaliyya, 7 October 2019.

“Understanding the 2017-18 Iran Protests,” GCC Issue Paper, Issue 24 (2018), 6-7

“Iran Protests: Changing Dynamics between the Islamic Republic and the Poor,” DiverseAsia (다양성+Asia), Issue 1 (2018)

فارسی‌

استعمار زدایی از اندیشه رهایی: عبور از افسانه منجیِ غربی، روزنامه اعتماد، ۳۱ شهریور ۱۴۰۴
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فلسطین، و ناخود‌آگاه استعماری نظریه انتقادی آلمانی [با آزاده شعبانی]، لوموند دیپلماتیک فارسی‌، ۲۲ مه ۲۰۲۵
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آیا جان فلسطینی‌ها اهمیت دارد؟، شهرگان، ۲۰ آبان ۱۴۰۲
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 اصلاح دینی و پروژه‌های رهایی بخش: تجربیات محلی و جهانی، بنیاد فرهنگی شریعتی، دی ماه ۱۳۹۶
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شریعتی برای امروز ما حرفی دارد؟، روزنامه ایران، ۲۹ خرداد ۱۳۹۶
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