Sociologist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi published the following article titled “Toward a Dialectical Conception of Imperiality: The Transitory (Heuristic) Nature of the Primacy of Analyses of Economies in WorldHistorical Social Science,” in Review (Journal of the [read more]
The following article, titled “Open the Antisystemic Movements: The Book, the Concept, and the Reality” and authored by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, was published in 2oo1 in Review (Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the [read more]
The following essay titled “Decolonizing Selves: The Subtler Violences of Colonialism and Racism in Fanon, Said, and Anzaldúa,” is an updated preprint edition of what was later published in 2009 by Mohammad Tamdgidi in Fanon [read more]
The following essay by the sociolgist Mohammad H. Tamdgidi is an excerpt from a longer introduction (pp. 27-87) to the 12th and last book of his series Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination, subtitled, Book 12: Khayyami Legacy: The Collected Works of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Culminating in His Secretive 1000 Robaiyat Autobiography. The introduction was subtitled “Toward A Textually and Historically More Reliable Biography of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Based on the Findings of This Series.” The excerpt offers a critical commentary on the role played in modern times by Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát in colonially distorting his legacy.
The following article by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, titled “Beyond Islamophobia and Islamophilia as Western Epistemic Racisms: Revisiting Runnymede Trust’s Definition in a World-History Context,” was published in Islamophobia Studies Journal (Center for Race & Gender, U.C. [read more]
The following article, titled “Abu Ghraib as a Microcosm: The Strange Face of Empire as a Lived Prison,” by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, was published in the journal Sociological Spectrum, vol. 27, issue 1, 2007:29-55. In [read more]
The following essay is an excerpt from the acknowledgments (xix-xlii) shared by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi in his book Liberating Sociology: From Newtonian Toward Quantum Imaginations: Unriddling the Quantum Enigma, published on January 20, 2020. It serves to offer a sense of the personal and historical origins, in a sociological imagination, of the book and more generally of its author’s research in the longer historical context of Western colonial interventions in Iran’s cultural, political, and economic social life.
The essay addresses issues that are deeply relevant today in 2025, which must be evident for anyone who cares to read it. However, it must also be considered in the context of the earlier time it had been written and submitted for publication in 2019.
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