Farzin Vahdat

Farzin Vahdat is a sociologist working on conditions and notions of modernity and their applications to Iran, Islam and the Muslim world. He is the author of God and Juggernaut: Iran’s Intellectual Encounter with Modernity (Syracuse University Press, 2002) and Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity (Anthem Press 2015). In the former book he probes into the sociopolitical discourses of major Iranian intellectuals and how their thought related to the ideas regarding various aspects of the modern world. In the latter book he analyses major elements of contemporary Muslim thought in relation to modernity. Vahdat has just published a new book entitled Fun House Mirrors: Cinema and Social Change in Iran. He is also author of numerous articles, some of which have been translated into different languages. Vahdat has taught at Tufts, Harvard, and Yale Universities, as well as Vassar College.