Asef Bayat

Asef Bayat was born in 1954 in an Azerbaijani family{{Cite web |last=ISIM |date=June 2003 |title=Asef Bayat New ISIM Academic Director |url=https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/16849 |website=Leiden University |series=Isim Newsletter, 12(1), 5-5. |ref=Isim Newsletter, 12(1), 5-5.}} in a small village near Tehran, where he attended a makeshift school in a warehouse with minimal instruction. Later, his family moved to the capital city, where his first schooling experience was with an Islamic institution. He obtained a diploma in a state-run high school, which was located close to the Hosseiniyeh Ershad, where many of Ali Shariati’s followers were gathering. He attended Shariati’s popular lectures in the Hosseiniyeh Ershad in his last high school years.{{Citation |last=Lanz |first=Stephan |title=Asef Bayat: Leben als Politik |date=2017 |work=Schlüsselwerke der Stadtforschung |pages=301–315 |editor-last=Eckardt |editor-first=Frank |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-10438-2_18 |access-date=2024-12-09 |place=Wiesbaden |publisher=Springer Fachmedien |language=de |doi=10.1007/978-3-658-10438-2_18 |isbn=978-3-658-10438-2}} However, by this time, he had become an entirely secular teenager, moving into leftist campus politics that he maintained throughout his higher education in the United Kingdom. He is married to social anthropologist Linda Herrera.{{Cite web |last=Thayer |first=Willa |date=2004-12-12 |title=Asef Bayat: Not out of place. |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/645/profile.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041212221109/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/645/profile.htm |archive-date=2004-12-12 |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=Al Ahram Weekly}}

Bayat completed his B.A. in Politics from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences in Tehran in 1977 and earned his Ph.D. in Sociology and Politics from the University of Kent between 1978 and 1984. Following his doctorate, he held a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985.

In 1986, Bayat moved to Egypt to teach at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Throughout his academic career, Bayat has taught Sociology including at the American University in Cairo for approximately 17 years. During this time in Egypt, he studied labor movements and informal politics in Egypt and Iran, leading to the publication of his books Street Politics and Work, Politics, and Power.

Bayat served as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) holding the Chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 2003 to 2010. Since 2010, he has been a Sociology and Middle East Studies Professor at University of Illinois. He has held the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Chair of Global and Transnational Studies since 2012.

• [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674987890 Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring] (Harvard University Press, 2021)
• [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295353/global-middle-east Global Middle East: Into the 21st Century], ed. with Linda Herrera (University of California Press, 2021)
• [https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26257&promo=S17XASA Revolution without Revolutionaries]: Making Sense of the Arab Spring Stanford University Press, 2017
• [http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766062.001.0001/acprof-9780199766062 Post-Islamism]: The Changing Faces of Political Islam. Oxford University Press, 2013.
• [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/being-young-and-muslim-9780195369205?cc=de&lang=en& Being Young and Muslim]: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North. (co-edited with Linda Herrera.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• [https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=22414 Life as Politics]: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 2nd Edition 2013.
• [https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789053569832/islam-and-democracy Islam and Democracy: What Is the Real Question?] Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
• 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.

• Bayat, Asef "[https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/is-iran-on-the-verge-of-another-revolution/ Is Iran on the Verge of another Revolution]?”, Journal of Democracy, vol. 34, no. 2, April 2023.
• Bayat, Asef (October 2015) "[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/681523 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) "[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-africa/2011-04-26/post-islamist-revolutions 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.
• {{Cite journal |last=Bayat |first=Asef |title=Islamism and the Politics of Fun |journal=Public Culture |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=433–459 |date=October 2007 |doi=10.1215/08992363-2007-004}}
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = Radical Religion and the Habitus of the Dispossessed: Does Islamic Militancy Have an Urban Ecology? | journal = International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | volume = 31 | issue = 3 | pages = 579–590 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00746.x | date = September 2007 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = Islamism and Social Movement Theory | journal = Third World Quarterly | volume = 26 | issue = 6 | pages = 891–908 | doi = 10.1080/01436590500089240 | jstor = 4017816 | date = September 2005 | s2cid = 143656715 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024644/http://courses.arch.vt.edu/courses/wdunaway/gia5274/bayat.pdf Pdf.]
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | s2cid = 36218868 | title = Activism and Social Development in the Middle East | journal = International Journal of Middle East Studies | volume = 34 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–28 | date = February 2002 | doi = 10.1017/S0020743802001010 | hdl = 1887/9803 | hdl-access = free }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively | journal = Middle East Studies Association Bulletin | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 151–158 | date = Winter 2001 | jstor = 23063462 | doi = 10.1017/S0026318400043315 | hdl = 1887/9802 | s2cid = 153290973 | hdl-access = free }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = From 'Dangerous Classes' to 'Quiet Rebels': Politics of Urban Subaltern in the Global South | journal = International Sociology | volume = 15 | issue = 3 | pages = 533–557 | doi = 10.1177/026858000015003005 | date = September 2000 | s2cid = 41053273 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Comparing Islamist Activism in Iran and Egypt | journal = Comparative Studies in Society and History | volume = 40 | issue = 1 | pages = 136–169 | doi = 10.1017/S0010417598980057 | jstor = 179392 | date = January 1998 | s2cid = 54197847 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = Un-Civil Society: The Politics of the 'Informal People' | journal = Third World Quarterly | volume = 18 | issue = 1 | pages = 53–72 | doi = 10.1080/01436599715055 | date = March 1997 | hdl = 1887/9769 | hdl-access = free }} [https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/9769/12_606_022.pdf Pdf.]
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = Work Ethics in Islam: A Comparison with Protestantism | journal = The Islamic Quarterly | volume = 36 | issue = 2 | pages = 5–27 | date = 1992 | url = https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/9773 }}
• {{Cite journal | last = Bayat | first = Asef | title = Shari'ati and Marx: A Critique of an "Islamic" Critique of Marxism | journal = Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics | volume = 10 | issue = 10| pages = 19–41 | doi = 10.2307/521715 | date = April 1990 | jstor = 521715 }} [https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/9774 Available online.]

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

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