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Abbas Barzegar
Abbas Barzegar is a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He is also an Assistant Professor of Islam at Georgia State University. His scholarly research concerns the history of the Sunni-Shi`a conflict. With Richard Martin he is co-editor of the volume, Islamism: Contested Perspective of Political Islam (Stanford Univ. Press, 2009). His views have been distributed through Common Ground News and the Guardian`s Comment is Free. He received his Ph.D. in religious studies from Emory University.