Abbas Barzegar
Expert
Abbas Barzegar is a scholar at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He is also an Assistant Professor of Islam at Georgia State University. His scholarly research concerns the history of the Sunni-Shi’a conflict. With Richard Martin he is co-editor of the volume Islamism: Contested Perspective of Political Islam (Stanford University Press, 2009). His views have been distributed through Common Ground News and The Guardian’s Comment is Free. He received his PhD in religious studies from Emory University.
Education
PhD, Emory University
Areas of Expertise
- American Muslims
- Political Islam
- Sunni-Shiite relations
- Middle East Politics
Publications
Celebrating Malcolm X’s 90th Birthday through Collective Courage and Not Mere Nostalgia
By the look of things, America is suffering throug
19 May, 2015Nothing Farcical about Anti-Muhammad Film
“First as tragedy, then as farce” is t
12 September, 2012“Who Was Muhammad, Was He Violent?”: Teaching Islam Ten Years after 9/11
As millions of college students around the country
09 September, 2011Mubarak and Decaf Coffee
Until now Western foreign policy in the Middle Eas
26 February, 2011Vulnerable Muslim Youth: The Challenge of Counter-Radicalisation
Many of us are still bewildered by the bizarre new
14 December, 2010The Myth of Iran’s Twitter Revolution
It’s been a full year since I had the privil
11 June, 2010Rethinking Islamic Reform: Finding Tough Answers the Hard Way
From face veils in France to wannabe terrorists in
26 May, 2010
Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam
As America struggles to understand Islam and Musli
21 October, 2009
