Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: beyond Eurocentric Social TheoryII -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on ContributorsV -- 1 Introduction -- Esmaeil Zeiny and Dustin J. Byrd -- 2 Midday Thoughts: Seyed Javad Miri’s Thought System -- Hossein Roohani -- 3 A Revolutionary Discourse: Frantz Fanon, Ali Shariati, and Their Synthesis—Seyed Javad Miri -- Dustin J. Byrd -- 4 Ibn Khaldun in Iran: the Case of Ali Shariati -- Syed Farid Alatas -- 5 The Possibility of Islamic Secularism in the Thoughts of Seyed Javad Miri and Abdolkarim Soroush: Similar Opinions with Different Literature   Ali Almasizand -- 6 The Mirror: a Sufi Conception of Justice -- Carimo Mohomed -- 7 Towards Indigenization of the Social Sciences: Establishing ‘Classicality’ in Psychology -- Joseph Alagha and Krikor Ankeshian -- 8 Empowering Intercivilizational Dialogue Theory (IDT) to Include Both Inter and Intra Dimensions of Power and Resistance -- Michael Naughton -- 9 Unmasking Totemism: Ali Shariati, Seyed Javad Miri and the Limits of Durkheimian Sociology -- Ramze Endut -- 1 Decolonizing the Discourse of the Iranian National Language: a Mirian Perspective -- Esmaeil Zeiny -- 11 National Identity in the Social Theory of Seyed Javad Miri -- Meisam Ghavehchian -- 12 Seyed Javad Miri: a Tireless Critical Scholar Seeking Authenticity -- Mehdi S. Shariati -- Index.

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.

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