Mehdi Mozaffari
Biography
Mehdi Mozaffari is professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Education
Mozaffari is Dr. d’Etat en Science Politique from Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Mention: ‘Très bien’ (Feb. 1971)
PhD (D.E.S.) Paris 1 (1967)
Diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales (Moyen Orient et Arabe littéraire), Paris (1967)
Diplômé de science politique (discipline: Relations Internationales), Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1966)
Master in Political Science, University of Tehran (1963).
Positions
Mozaffari has been lecturer at Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Professor and director of the Centre for International Studies, University of Tehran
Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Head of the Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation (CIR), Aarhus University (until January 2013).
Mozaffari has taught at different universities (Tehran, Paris, Geneva, Grenoble, Catania and Aarhus).
He has been a visiting scholar at MGIMO/Moscow and senior fellow at Harvard University.
Selected publications
Mozaffari is the author, co-author and editor of a number of academic books and articles, including:
‘Iran’s Foreign Policy’ in Asian Policy, SAGE, London (forthcoming 2017)
Islamism: A New Totalitarianism, Lynne Rienner Publishers, USA & Verlag Hans Schiler, Germany, 2017
Islamisme: en orientalsk totalitarisme, Copenhagen, Informations Forlag, October 2013
‘The Role of Ideology in Iranian Foreign Policy’ in IRAN and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Clément Therme, H. E. Chehabi, Farhad Khosrokhavar, California, Mazda Publishers, 2013
10 Bud – på kultur, identitet og værdier i Danmark (ed. and co-author), Aarhus, Systime, 2012
Western Totalitarianism. A Reminder, Aarhus, CIR, April 2011
Globalization and Civilizations (ed. and co-author), London and New York, Routledge, 2002
‘Mega Civilization: Global Capital and the New Standard of Civilization’ in The New Millenium, ed. by S.F. Krishna-Hensel, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000
Pouvoir Shî‘ite: Théorie et Evolution, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1998
FATWA: Violence and Discourtesy, Oxford, Aarhus University Press, 1998
Authority in Islam: From Muhammad to Khomeini, New York, Sharpe, 1987
Other publications
- Obama går tilbage og Putin frem
- Aufkommen und Entwicklung des Islamismus - im Licht des europäischen Totalitarismus
- Islamisme – en orientalsk totalitarisme
- Ideologi styrer Irans udenrigspolitik
- The Role of Ideology in Iranian Foreign Policy
- Grænser for demokratisering?
- 10 BUD – på kultur, identitet og værdier i Danmark
Books for sale
Here you can find a list of publications published by the former Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation. Please contact Mehdi Mozzaffari if you are interested in buying one or more of them.
- The Making of a German Salafiyya: The Emergence, Development and Missionary Work of Salafi Movements in Germany, by Nina Wiedl
- 10 bud – på kultur, identitet og værdier i Danmark, by multiple authors
- Radikalisering blandt unge muslimer i Europa, by Martin Kryhl Jensen
- PASHTUNISTAN/WAZIRISTAN, Knowledge Construction about FATA: A Critical Approach to Research, by Farhat Taj
- A Western Source of Islamism: Soundings in the Influence of Alexis Carrel on Sayyid Qutb, by John Møller Larsen
- Western Totalitarianism. A Reminder, A handbook, by professor Mehdi Mozaffari with Sara Normann Thordsen
- Ideology – The Anthropological Perspective, by Farhad Khosrokhavar
- ‘The Iranian Green Movement’, by Mehdi Mozaffari
- History of Fanaticism: From Enlightenment to Jihad, by Bob de Graaff
- Jeunes et radicalisation islamiste : Lille, France, by Chahla Beski-Chafiq, Jane Birmant, Hichem Benmerzoug, Akim Taibi and Ariane Coignard (Youth and Islamist Radicalisation: Lille, France – English Summary)
- Muslim Communities Perspectives on Radicalisation in Leicester, UK, by Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Robert Lambert, Adbul-Haqq Baker, Safiyah Cohen-Baker and Zacharias Pieri
- Young Muslims in Italy: Parma and Verona, by Donatella della Porta and Lorenzo Bosi
- House of War. Islamic Radicalisation in Denmark, by Marco Goli and Shahamak Rezaei
- Radicalization among Young Muslims in Aarhus, by Lene Kühle and Lasse Lindekilde
- Ballot and Bullet. The Politicisation of Islam to Islamism, by Bassam Tibi
- THE RISE OF ISLAMISM IN THE LIGHT OF EUROPEAN TOTALITARIANISM, by Mehdi Mozaffari, in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1-1
- IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF ISLAMISM, by Mehdi Mozaffari
- ISLAMISM AS SOCIAL MOVEMENT
I by Thomas Olesen: Social Movement Theory and Radical Islamis Activism
II by Farhad Khosrokhavar: Jihadism in Europe and the Middle East - ISLAMIST POLICY
I by Mehdi Mozaffari: I Iranian Ideological Foreign Policy
II by Mehdi Mozaffari: Bin Laden’s Foreign Policy – Paths of Amity and Enmity - THE RISE OF ISLAMISM IN THE LIGHT OF EUROPEAN TOTALITARIANISM, by Mehdi Mozaffari, in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1-13
- What is Islamism? History and Definition of a Concept, by Mehdi Mozaffari