Seyed Javad Miri is a leading social theorist at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies in Iran. He has taught in more than 70 countries and written 40 books on sociology and religion, including his most recent work, Islamism and Post-Islamism (University Press of America).

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• PrologueIntroductionChapter 1: Novel Strategies of InterpretationNovel Reading StrategiesUniform Strategies of ReadingHouse Negro and Field NegroAcademic Form of AnalysisChapter 2: Undisciplinary Fields of KnowledgeDescartes versus RumiTutelage and the Riddle of SubjectivitySymbolism UnthoughtField Strategies of ResistanceChapter 3: Violence, Religion, and ExtremismMilitant Secularism and Fanatic Religionism Racial RevolutionHistoriography of Revolt/Revolution in SociologyRevolution and Radical Means of Political TransformationChapter 4: The Epic of AmericaThe Mystery of UnsaidRacism and American Foreign PolicyIslam, Religion, and the Question of Hermeneutics Good SocietyThe Prophetic and the AnalyticAcademia and the Prophetic PerspectivePersonal Scholarly NarrativeEpilogueReferences

Seyed Javad Miri is a leading social theorist at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies in Iran. He has taught in more than 70 countries and written 40 books on sociology and religion, including his most recent work, Islamism and Post-Islamism (University Press of America).

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• PrologueIntroductionChapter 1: Novel Strategies of InterpretationNovel Reading StrategiesUniform Strategies of ReadingHouse Negro and Field NegroAcademic Form of AnalysisChapter 2: Undisciplinary Fields of KnowledgeDescartes versus RumiTutelage and the Riddle of SubjectivitySymbolism UnthoughtField Strategies of ResistanceChapter 3: Violence, Religion, and ExtremismMilitant Secularism and Fanatic Religionism Racial RevolutionHistoriography of Revolt/Revolution in SociologyRevolution and Radical Means of Political TransformationChapter 4: The Epic of AmericaThe Mystery of UnsaidRacism and American Foreign PolicyIslam, Religion, and the Question of Hermeneutics Good SocietyThe Prophetic and the AnalyticAcademia and the Prophetic PerspectivePersonal Scholarly NarrativeEpilogueReferences

Seyed Javad Miri is a leading social theorist at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies in Iran. He has taught in more than 70 countries and written 40 books on sociology and religion, including his most recent work, Islamism and Post-Islamism (University Press of America).

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• PrologueIntroductionChapter 1: Novel Strategies of InterpretationNovel Reading StrategiesUniform Strategies of ReadingHouse Negro and Field NegroAcademic Form of AnalysisChapter 2: Undisciplinary Fields of KnowledgeDescartes versus RumiTutelage and the Riddle of SubjectivitySymbolism UnthoughtField Strategies of ResistanceChapter 3: Violence, Religion, and ExtremismMilitant Secularism and Fanatic Religionism Racial RevolutionHistoriography of Revolt/Revolution in SociologyRevolution and Radical Means of Political TransformationChapter 4: The Epic of AmericaThe Mystery of UnsaidRacism and American Foreign PolicyIslam, Religion, and the Question of Hermeneutics Good SocietyThe Prophetic and the AnalyticAcademia and the Prophetic PerspectivePersonal Scholarly NarrativeEpilogueReferences