Dr Mohammad Kalantari
Educational background
BA Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran
MSc Lancaster University
PhD Royal Holloway University of London
Personal profile
Mohammad R. Kalantari is a Research Fellow in International Relations and Co-Director of Centre for Islamic & West Asian Studies at Department of Politics and International Relations. His research interest lies in the International Relations of the Middle East with particular focus on the interaction of regional doctrines, elite ideologies, and political Islam.
Currently, he is working on a project which aims to introduce an original network toolkit to develop a multi-levelled mapping of the structure of the IR of the Middle East.
He has collaborated actively with policymakers and researchers in various inter-disciplinary projects addressing the contemporary affairs of the Middle East and the Muslim World.
Research interests
Keywords: International Relations of the Middle East; Networked Politics; Political Islam; Islamic Extremism; Sectarian identities; Shi'i Transnationalism; Shi'i Clerical Elites; Iran; Lebanon; Iraq.
Teaching
PR3600- Contemporary Middle East Politics
PR5963- Islam and West Asia in International Relations
Programme Director, MA in Islamic and West Asian Studies
- Forthcoming
The Clergy and the Modern Middle East: Shiʿi Political Activism in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon
Research output: Book/Report › Book
- Published
Review of In a Pure Muslim Land: Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
- Published
Protecting the Citadel of Islam in the Modern Era: A Case of Shiʿi Mujtahids and the Najaf Seminary in Early Twentieth-Century Iraq
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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