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CV-Moojan-Momen Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Moojan Momen I was born in Iran in 1950. My mother who was widowed at the age of 19, migrated with me and my younger brother to England in 1955. I attended schools in Bournemouth and Taunton and eventually went to University of Cambridge studying natural and medical sciences. I graduated in 1971 and married at that time. I went on to complete my medical studies at Guy's Hospital, London, and qualified in 1974. After five years of hospital medicine, I returned to Cambridge University and completed the Arabic and Islamic course. Since that time I have combined a career in medicine with research in the fields of Middle Eastern studies, Islamic studies, Iranian history, the study of religion and of the Baha'i Faith. I have published and lectured widely in these areas. I have also researched and published in the fields of genocide and social and economic development. I am married to Wendi Momen and have two adult children and two grandchildren. My interests include human rights, social justice, community development and the advancement of women. I enjoy going to the theatre and walking. I also enjoy international travel having done four round-the-world trips, travelled along the Trans-Siberian Railway and undertaken a lecture tour in China. I have done voluntary research work at the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa, Israel, voluntary medical work in Tonga and voluntary community work in West Africa (mainly the Gambia). ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Books The Babi and Baha'i Religions 1844-1944: some contemporary western accounts. Oxford: George Ronald, 1981 An Introduction to Shi`i Islam: the history and doctrines of Twelver Shi`ism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; Oxford: George Ronald; New Delhi and Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1985 The Works of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i: a Bibliography. Baha'i Studies Monograph, no. 1, Newcastle, 1991 The Phenomenon of Religion: A Thematic Approach. Oxford: Oneworld, 1999 (reprinted as Understanding Religion: A Thematic Approach. Oxford: Oneworld, 2009) 2 The Baha'i Communities of Iran 1851-1921. Volume 1: The North of Iran. Oxford: George Ronald, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-85398-585-3 Shi`i Islam: A Beginner's Guide. Oxford: Oneworld, 2015, ISBN: 987-1-78074-787-3 Edited volumes (Editor) Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 1. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982 (Editor with Juan R. Cole) From Iran East and West. Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 2. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1984 (Editor) Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne on the Babi and Baha'i Religions. Oxford: George Ronald, 1987 (Editor) Studies in Honor of the late Hasan M. Balyuzi. Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, vol. 5. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1988 (Editor) Scripture and Revelation. Oxford: George Ronald, 1998 (Editor) The Baha'i Faith and the World's Religions. Oxford: George Ronald, 2003 (Editor) Fadil Mazandarani. Zuhuru'l-Haqq. Vol. 4, Hofheim: Baha'i-Verlag, 2011 (Editor) Hasan M. Balyuzi, Idvard Granvil Brawn va Diyanat-i Baha'i (trans. from English by H.M. Balyuzi). Hofheim: Baha'i-Verlag, 2016 Chapters in Books "Early Relations between Christian Missionaries and the Babi and Baha'i Communities." Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 1 (ed. M. Momen), Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982 (with Peter Smith) "The Babi Movement: a resource mobilisation perspective." In Iran (Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 3, ed. Peter Smith). Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1986, pp. 33-93 "Authority and Opposition in Twelver Shi`ism." Islamic Fundamentalism (ed. R. M. Burrell). Royal Asiatic Seminar Papers No. 1. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1989, pp. 48-66 "Relativism: a basis for Baha'i Metaphysics." Studies in Honor of the late Hasan M. Balyuzi (ed. M. Momen). Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, vol. 5, Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1988, pp. 185-217 3 "The Baha'i Community of Ashkhabad: its social basis and importance in Baha'i history." Central Asia: Tradition and Change (ed. S. Akiner) London: Kegan Paul International, 1991, pp. 278-305 "The Baha'i Community of Iran: Patterns of Exile and Problems of Communication." Iranian Refugees and Exiles since Khomeini (ed. Asghar Fathi) London: Mazda Publications, 1991, pp. 21-36 "A Preliminary Survey of the Baha'i Community of Iran during the Nineteenth Century." Iran im 19.Jahrhundert und die Enstehung der Baha'i Religion (ed. Christoph Burgel and Isabel Schayani) Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1998, pp. 33-51 "The Religious Background of the 1979 Revolution in Iran." Islam in the Contemporary World, (ed. Theodore Gabriel), New Delhi: Vikas, 2000, pp. 200-217 "Millennialist Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares", in Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bábí-Bahá'i Faiths (ed. Moshe Sharon), Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions, vol. 104. Brill: Leiden, 2004, pp. 97-116 "The Role of Women in the Iranian Baha'i Community during the Qajar Period" in Religion and Society in Qajar Iran (Ed. Robert M. Gleave), London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp. 346- 69 "The Globalization of the Baha=i Community 1892-1921", in Baha=i and Globalisation (eds. Margit Warburg, Annika Hvithamar and Morten Warmind), Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2005, pp. 77-105 "Baha'i Schools in Iran" in The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-historical studies (ed. Dominic P Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel), London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 94-121 "Fundamentalism and the Baha'i Community: Definitions and Social Dynamics", in Ulrika Märtensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, and Asbjørn Dyrendal (eds.), Fundamentalism in the Modern World. 2 vols, International Library of Political Studies. London: I.B.Tauris, 2011, vol. 1: Fundamentalism, Politics and History: The State, Globalisation and Political Ideologies, pp. 288-309 "Between Karbala' and Tabriz: Contested Martyrdom Narratives", in Sasha Dehghani and Silvia Horsh (eds), Martyrdom in the Middle East. (Ex Oriente Lux, vol. 14). Würzburg: Ergon, 2014, pp. 43-55 "The Reading of Scripture: A Baha'i Approach", in Fiachra Long and Siobhán Dowling Long (eds.), Reading the Sacred Scriptures. London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 137-54 4 Moojan Momen, “The Baha’i Community of Iran: Cultural Genocide and Resilience,” in Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations, ed. Jeffrey Bachman (London: Routledge, 2019). Articles "The Trial of Mulla `Ali Bastami: a combined Sunni-Shi`i fatwa against the Bab." Iran vol. 20 (1982) pp. 113-43 "The Social Basis of the Babi Upheavals in Iran (1848-53): a preliminary analysis." International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 15 (1983) pp. 157-183 (with Juan R. Cole) "Mafia, Mob and Shi`ism: the rebellion of Ottoman Karbala 1823-43." Past and Present no. 112 (Aug 1986) pp. 112-143 (with Peter Smith) "The Baha'i Faith 1957-1988: a survey of contemporary developments." Religion vol. 19 (1989) pp. 63-91 "Jamal Effendi and the early spread of the Baha'i Faith in South Asia", Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 9, 1999/2000, 47-80 "Usuli, Akhbari, Shaykhi, Babi: The Tribulations of a Qazvin Family", Iranian Studies, vol. 36, 2003, 317-337 "The Babi and Baha'i community of Iran: a case of 'suspended genocide'?" Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 7, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 221-241 "Changing Reality: the Baha'i Community and the Creation of a New Reality", História, Questões & Debates, vol. 22, no. 43, (Jul-Dec 2005), pp. 13-32; also available on-line at: http://calvados.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/historia/article/view/7860/5541 "Marginality and apostasy in the Baha'i community," Religion 37 (2007), pp. 187-209 "The Baha'is and the Constitutional Revolution: The Case of Sari, Mazandaran, 1906-1913" Iranian Studies, volume 41, number 3 (June 2008) 343- 363 'Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852' Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Volume 12, Issue 1 (Aug. 2008) 57 82 "Social and Economic Development in an Iranian Village: The Baha'i Community of Saysan," Baha'i Studies Review, vol. 15 (2009) 67-81 5 Persecution and Development: The History of the Baha'i Community in Mahfuruzak in Mazandaran, Iran" Baha'i Studies Review 18 (2012) 45-54 "Negotiating Survival: A History of the Babi and Baha'i Faith in Shiraz (1844-1921)." Baha'i Studies Review 06/2013; 19(1) 45-68., DOI:10.1386/bsr.19.1.45_1 "Persecution and Resilience: A History of the Baha'i Religion in Qajar Isfahan." Journal of Religious History 36/4 (12/2012) 471-485. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9809.2012.01225.x "The Constitutional Movement and the Baha'is of Iran: The Creation of an 'Enemy Within'." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 39/3 (12/2012) 328-346. DOI:10.1080/13530194.2012.726920 "The Merging of the Sacred and the Profane: What Substitutes for Ritual in the Baha'i Faith?" Implicit Religion 16/2 (08/2013) 157-168. DOI:10.1558/imre.v16i2.157 “Millennialist Narrative and Apocalyptic Violence: The Case of the Babis of Iran.” Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion 20 (2018), 1-18 http://www.jbasr.com/ojs/index.php/jbasr/article/view/24/27 Translations Au-delà du monothéisme: La Religione bahá'íe (trans. Pierre Spierckel). Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009 Encyclopedia Articles Articles in Encyclopedia Iranica (ed. Ehsan Yarshater), vol. I-, London, 1982-. Also available at http://www.iranicaonline.org "Abu'l-Fazl Golpaygani", vol. 2, pp. 289-90 "Adib Talaqani", vol. 2, p.461 "Afnan", vol. 2, pp. 567-8 "`Ali Akbar Shahmirzadi", vol. 2, p. 857 "Amin, Hajji", vol. 2, 938-9 "Badast", vol. 3, p.
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