Siavash Saffari

Siavash Saffari is an Iranian political scientist and professor of West Asian Studies at Seoul National University. He is known for his works on Iranian intellectual history.

Books Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought, Cambridge University Press 2017 Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts, co-edited with Roxana Akhbari, Kara Abdolmaleki, and Evelyn Hamdon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 Spirit and Defiance: Ali Shariati in Translation (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press)