Seyed Javad Miri

{{short description|Iranian sociologist}}

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| birth_date = 1971

| birth_place = Tabriz, Iran

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| nationality = Swedish-Iranian

| fields = social theory

| workplaces = Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

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| education = Bristol University (PhD)
University of Gothenburg (MA)

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| thesis_title = Intercivilisational Social Theory: Complementarity and Contradiction in the Muslim and Western Intellectual Traditions

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| thesis_year = 2005

| doctoral_advisor = Gregor McLennan
Rohit Barot

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| known_for = works on Islamic thinkers

| awards = CSN Scholarship

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Seyed Javad Miri Meynagh ({{langx|fa|جواد میری}}) (born 1971) is a Swedish-Iranian sociologist{{cite web |title=Seyed Javad Miri |url=http://www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/seyed-javad-miri/ |website=The Center for Critical Research on Religion |access-date=31 December 2018}} and professor of sociology at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies.

He is known for his expertise on social theory and Islamic thinkers.{{cite journal |last1=Paya |first1=Ali |title=East And West: Allama Jafari on Bertrand Russell by Seyed Javad Miri |journal=Philosophy East and West |date=2015 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=991–993 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/PAYEAW |access-date=31 December 2018|doi=10.1353/pew.2015.0065 |s2cid=170551378 |url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Turner |first1=Bryan |title=Max Weber and the Sociology of Islam |journal=Revue Internationale de Philosophie |date=2016 |url=https://www.cairn-int.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_RIP_276_0213 |access-date=31 December 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Tafakori |first1=Sara |title=Review of Seyed Javad Miri's Islamism and Post-Islamism |url=https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/review-of-seyed-javad-miris-islamism-and-post-islamism/ |website=Theory, Culture & Society |access-date=31 December 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Durkin |first1=Kieran |title=Review of 'Erich Fromm's Revolutionary Hope: Prophetic Messianism as a Critical Theory of the Future', 'Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm's Thought' |url=https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/7958_erich-fromms-revolutionary-hope-reclaiming-the-sane-society-review-by-kieran-durkin/ |website=Marx & Philosophy Review of Books |access-date=2 January 2019}}{{cite journal |last1=Ayyar |first1=Varsha |title=Review: Seyed Javad Miri, Reimagining Malcolm X: Street Thinker Versus Homo Academicus |journal=International Sociology |date=11 September 2018 |volume=33 |issue=5 |pages=617–620 |doi=10.1177/0268580918791974e |s2cid=150233210 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Signoracci |first1=Gino |title=Review: Seyed Javad Miri, ed. Orientalism: A Eurocentric Vision of the 'Other' |journal=Socialism and Democracy |date=9 July 2015 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=135–139 |doi=10.1080/08854300.2015.1035105 |s2cid=142561219 }}{{cite journal |last1=Fenn |first1=Richard |title=Book review: Seyed Javad Miri, Probing into the Sociological Thought of Allama M.T. Jafari |journal=International Sociology |date=March 2013 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=193–194 |doi=10.1177/0268580913477961b |s2cid=144353987 |issn=0268-5809}}