Asef Bayat Explained

Asef Bayat is an Iranian-American Professor of Sociology.^[1] He currently holds the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Chair in Global and Transnational Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to his tenure at Illinois, Bayat was a faculty member at the American University in Cairo and served as the Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at Leiden University, The Netherlands, where he also held the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East. Additionally, he has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; the University of Oxford; and Brown University.^[2]

Personal Life

Asef Bayat was born in 1954 in a small village near Tehran where he attended a makeshift school in a warehouse with minimal instruction. After a gap in formal education, during which his father taught him, Bayat's family moved to Tehran, improving his educational opportunities. He is married to social anthropologist Linda Herrera and they have 2 daughters, Shiva and Tara.^[3]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring (Harvard University Press, 2021)
• Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century, ed. with Linda Herrera (University of California Press, 2021)
• Revolution without Revolutionaries

Making Sense of the Arab Spring Stanford University Press, 2017

• Post-Islamism

The Changing Faces of Political Islam. Oxford University Press, 2013.

• Being Young and Muslim

New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North. (co-edited with Linda Herrera.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

• Life as Politics

How Ordinary People Change the Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 2nd Edition 2013.

• Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
• Street Politics: Poor Peoples Movements in Iran. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
• Work, Politics and Power. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991.
• Workers and Revolution in Iran. London: Zed Books, 1987.

Articles

• Bayat, Asef "Is Iran on the Verge of another Revolution?”, Journal of Democracy, vol. 34, no. 2, April 2023.
• Bayat, Asef (October 2015) "Plebeians of the Arab Spring", Current Anthropology, vol. 56, no. 11.
• Bayat, Asef (2013) "The Making of Post-Islamist Iran", in A. Bayat, ed., Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam, New York, Oxford University Press.
• Bayat, Asef (2013) "Egypt and Its Unsettled Islamism", in A. Bayat, ed., Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam", New York, Oxford University Press.
• Bayat, Asef (2012) "Islamic Movements", in David Snow, et al. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, Oxford and New York, Blackwell.
• Bayat, Asef (April 26, 2011) "The Post-Islamist Revolutions", Foreign Affairs.
• Bayat, Asef (2011) "Marginality: Curse or Cure?", in Ray Bush and Habib Ayeb (eds.) Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt, London, Zed Books.
• Bayat . Asef . Islamism and the Politics of Fun . . 19 . 3 . 433–459 . October 2007 . 10.1215/08992363-2007-004.
• Bayat . Asef . Radical Religion and the Habitus of the Dispossessed: Does Islamic Militancy Have an Urban Ecology? . . 31 . 3 . 579–590 . 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00746.x . September 2007 .
• Bayat . Asef . Islamism and Social Movement Theory . . 26 . 6 . 891–908 . 10.1080/01436590500089240 . 4017816 . September 2005 . 143656715 . Pdf.
• Bayat . Asef . 36218868 . Activism and Social Development in the Middle East . . 34 . 1 . 1–28 . February 2002 . 10.1017/S0020743802001010 . 1887/9803 . free .
• Bayat . Asef . Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively . Middle East Studies Association Bulletin . 35 . 2 . 151–158 . Winter 2001 . 23063462 . 10.1017/S0026318400043315 . 1887/9802 . 153290973 . free .
• Bayat . Asef . From 'Dangerous Classes' to 'Quiet Rebels': Politics of Urban Subaltern in the Global South . . 15 . 3 . 533–557 . 10.1177/026858000015003005 . September 2000 . 41053273 .
• Bayat . Asef . Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Comparing Islamist Activism in Iran and Egypt . . 40 . 1 . 136–169 . 10.1017/S0010417598980057 . 179392 . January 1998 . 54197847 .
• Bayat . Asef . Un-Civil Society: The Politics of the 'Informal People' . . 18 . 1 . 53–72 . 10.1080/01436599715055 . March 1997 . 1887/9769 . free . Pdf.
• Bayat . Asef . Work Ethics in Islam: A Comparison with Protestantism . The Islamic Quarterly . 36 . 2 . 5–27 . 1992 .
• Bayat . Asef . Shari'ati and Marx: A Critique of an "Islamic" Critique of Marxism . Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics . 10 . 10. 19–41 . 10.2307/521715 . April 1990 . 521715 . Available online.

External links

• Asef Bayat personal Website, https://www.asefbayatwebsite.com/
• University of Illinois Website, https://sociology.illinois.edu/directory/profile/abayat

Notes and References

1. Web site: About . 2024-08-17 . Asef Bayat . en-US.
2. Web site: Asef Bayat Department of Sociology Illinois . 2024-08-17 . sociology.illinois.edu.
3. Web site: 2004-12-12 . Al-Ahram Weekly Profile Asef Bayat: Not out of place . 2024-08-17 . web.archive.org.