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Contributors
Abbas Amanat
is Professor of History and Chair of the Council on Middle
East Studies at Yale University. He is a specialist on modern Iran, and his
publications include
Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian
Monarchy
(
) and
Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi
Movement in Iran
–
(
). Currently he is writing
The Search for
Modern Iran: Authority, Nationhood and Culture
, a general history.
Said Amir Arjomand
is Professor of Sociology, State University of New
York, Stony Brook. He is the author of many books on Islam, especially
Shi'ism, such as
The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political
Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to
(Chicago:
) and
The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran
(New
York,
).
Harry W. Attridge
is Lilian Claus Professor of New Testament, Yale Uni-
versity and was previously Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, University
of Notre Dame. He is the author and editor of numerous publications in-
cluding
Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews
(Philadelphia,
) and “Christianity from the Destruction of Jerusalem to Constantine’s
Adoption of the New Religion:
–
”, in Hershel Shanks (ed.),
Chris-
tianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of their Origins and Early
Development
(Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society,
).
Shahzad Bashir
is Assistant Professor,
Department of Religion, Carleton
College. Dr Bashir received his PhD from Yale University in
and is a
specialist in medieval Islamic religious thought, especially the messianic Nur-
bakshiya and Hurufiyya movements.
Magnus T. Bernhardsson
is Assistant Professor of History at Hofstra Univer-
sity. He received his PhD in
from Yale University. His book
Reclaiming
a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nationalism in Modern Iraq
will be published
by the University of Texas Press in
.
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Imagining the End
Paul Boyer
is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
where he specializes in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Dr Boyer
is the author of
By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at
the Dawn of the Atomic Age
(Chapel Hill,
)
and
When Time Shall Be No
More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture
(Cambridge, MA,
)
Richard Brodhead
is A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor
of English and American
Studies and Dean of Yale College. He is a specialist in American literature
whose publications include
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