Babak RAHIMI - Ph.D. (European University Institute) ON LEAVE FA07-SP08 Primary Office: LIT 324 Primary Phone: (858) 534-2147 (ANS MACHINE) Email: brahimi@ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies: Shi'i Islam; Medieval and (early) modern Iranian culture and society, public sphere, civil society; Democracy and modernity. Babak Rahimi, who earned his BA at UCSD, received a Ph.D from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, in October 2004. Rahimi has also studied at the University of Nottingham, where he obtained a M.A. in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, and London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, 2000-2001. Rahimi was recently a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC, where he conducted research on the institutional contribution of Shi’i political organizations in the creation of a vibrant civil society in Iraq. He has published articles on culture, religion and politics in Iranian Studies and Critical Theory and Historical Sociology. CV in PDF Format: http://literature.ucsd.edu/faculty/attachments/brahimi.cv.pdf Selected Publications: “Guilds.” Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, 1st Edition. Forthcoming 2006. “Camel.” Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, 1st Edition. Forthcoming 2006. “Camel Sacrifice in Iran.” Encyclopedia Iranica, 1st Edition, supplementary issue. Forthcoming 2006. “The Middle Period Islamic Axiality.” Handbook of Sociology of Islam: Axiality, Islam and Modernity 7. Ed. Johann Arnason, Armando Salvatore and George Strauth. Forthcoming 2006. “Quietist Shi’ism and Democratization of Post-Saddam Iraq: The Case of Ayatollah Sistani.” Special Report. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace. Forthcoming December 2005. “From Assorted to Assimilated Ethnography: Institutions, Narrative and the Transformation of Ethnographic Authority in the Travel Reports of Michele Membre and Jean Chardin, 1542-1677 C.E.” Unraveling Civilization: European Travel Writing. Ed. Hagen Schulz-Forberg. Brussels: P.E.-Peter Lang, 2005. “Ayatollah Sistani and the Democratization of Post-Saddam Iraq.” Middle East Review of International Affairs 11.2 (December 2004). “The Rebound Theater State: The Politics of the Safavid Camel Sacrifice, 1598-1695 C.E.” Iranian Studies 37.3 (2004). “Between Chieftaincy and Knighthood: A Comparative Study of the Safavid and the Ottoman Origins.” Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology 76 (February 2004). “Cyberdissent: The Internet in Revolutionary Iran.” Middle East Review of International Affairs 7.3 (September 2003).