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Mahmoud Sadri is a Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University.
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Sociology
Contemporary Social Theory
Sociology of Terrorism
Islam and Modernization
Classical Social Theory
Migration Dynamics
Contemporary Iranian Political Dissidents
Education (1)
New School University: Ph.D., Sociology 1988
Media Appearances (6)
Trump is Still Acting More Like a Candidate Than the President
Dallas News
2017-02-02
Who is not afraid of terrorism? I know I am. The question is: What can we do about it? All those who keep politics even in their peripheral vision must have realized by now that there is something amiss in President Trump's executive order on "protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States." It is a flawed attempt to stem the tide of terrorism, and here is why:..
Speaker Defines ‘Sparks’ Of Extremism, Says ISIS Doomed To Fail
The Lawton Constitution online
2015-10-14
To Mahmoud Sadri, ISIS practices a newfangled interpretation of Islam, one that practices "lurid violence" and has little support among hundreds of millions of Muslims and will, eventually, fail. "This is not a phenomenon that will disappear tomorrow, but it definitely will not outlive this generation," he told a crowd at Cameron University Tuesday. Sadri, a professor of sociology at Texas Woman's University and the Federation of North Texas Area Universities, talked about the roots of ISIS and related movements such as al Qaeda during his presentation...
Cameron University to Feature Presentation on Roots and Ramifications of ISIS
Cameron University online
2015-10-13
The Cameron University School of Liberal Arts will present “ISIS Theatre of Cruelty: Roots and Ramifications” by Dr. Mahmoud Sadri on Tuesday, October 13 at 6 p.m. in the McCasland Ballroom. The presentation is made possible by the Phillip L. Jones Endowed Lectureship in Ethics and is open to the public at no charge. “Understanding the sociological roots of ISIS and its relation to other groups in the region is an essential step if we are going to make progress in rising to the many ethical and political challenges that surround the current situation,” says Dr. Von Underwood, Dean, School of Liberal Arts. “There is danger, for example, that an interfaith dialogue of crucial importance as we move further into the century may be set back or destroyed if we are not informed and careful in the ways all of us respond.” ...
Lecture to look at roots, ramifications of ISIS
NewsOK online
2015-10-07
A free public lecture will explore “ISIS Theatre of Cruelty: Roots and Ramifications” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the McCasland Ballroom at Cameron University. Mahmoud Sadri, who grew up in Iran, will discuss the development of ISIS and the complex sociological issues surrounding it...
73 Prominent International Relations Scholars Say Iran Deal Will Help Stabilize Middle East
National Iranian American Council online
2015-08-27
Washington, DC – 73 prominent International Relations and Middle East scholars have issued a letter in support of the Iran deal, arguing that it is a “strong and positive step toward stabilizing the Middle East,” and that a potential Congressional rejection of the agreement would further destabilize the region and “reignite Washington and Tehran’s gravitation towards a military confrontation.”...
Letters: ‘Among the Disrupted’
The New York Times online
2015-01-30
One glaring omission in Leon Wieseltier’s dazzling manifesto is his characterization of the “pedagogy” of humanism as “the traditional Western curriculum of literary and philosophical classics, beginning in Greek and Roman antiquity and . . . erupting in the rediscovery of that antiquity in Europe in the early modern centuries.” Premonitions of our notion of “humanism,” however, are not limited to Greece and Rome. Its scintillating fountainheads in Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching and Mathnavi — to name a few — are now a part of the pedagogy of humanism. And any attempt to write these out of the universal discourse of humanism would amount to a resurgence of what Wieseltier correctly calls “particularism.”...
Articles (5)
Sacral Defense of Secularism: Dissident Political Theology in Iran
Intellectual Trends in Twentieth-Century Iran
2003 ABSTRACT: This paper discusses thress post-revolutionary dissident political theologies in Iran. They all question the absoloutist theology of the ruling clerics and utilize indigenous sources of scholarship to oppose the clerical hegemony. They have complementary emphases: ...
Sacral defense of secularism: The political theologies of Soroush, Shabestari, and Kadivar
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
2001 ABSTRACT: This paper discusses three post-revolutionary dissident political theologies in Iran. They all question the absolutist theology of the ruling clerics and utilize indigenous sources of scholarship to oppose the clerical hegemony. They have complementary emphases: ...
Doppelganger: Twins' Disruption of the Assumptions of Constancy and Uniqueness of Self in Everyday Life
Symbolic Interaction
1994 ABSTRACT: The ubiquitous presence of the assumptions of constancy and uniqueness of self in everyday life renders them virtually undetectable. A radical disruption of these assumptions through an experiment involving identical twins lays bare the varieties of “extrinsic” and “intrinsic” rationalizations and convictions concerning the performer and the audience that protect the above dual assumptions of social cognition and communication...
Intercultural Understanding: Max Weber and Leo Strauss
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
1988 ABSTRACT: For much of human history intercultural understanding has been precluded by fantastic folkloric and mythological conceptions about inhabitants of exotic lands. What the contemporary academic lexicon defines as xenophobia, ethnocentrism and prejudice ...
Reconstruction of Max Weber's notion of rationality: An immanent model
Social Research
1982 ABSTRACT: Sixty years of Weber scholarship has demonstrated, if nothing else, that Weber's work is a miniature of the world he envisioned: an infinitely rich and inexhaustible cosmos that remains open to numerous questions and interpretations on the most fundamental evel. In ...
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