The book came out of a doctoral dissertation that I defended at the University of Alberta in 2013, although its publication took a few more years and several more rewritings. I was not fully conscious of this at the time of writing the manuscript, but I have si..
Siavash Saffari
Siavash Saffari is an assistant professor of West Asian Studies at Seoul National University, South Korea. 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.