Mansoor Moaddel

Mansoor Moaddel is professor of sociology at University of Maryland-College Park. He studies religion, ideology, revolution and social change. His latest projects include (1) a cross-national comparative analysis of religious fundamentalism in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey; (2) a comparative cross-national panel survey in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey (2011-2020); (3) conceptualizing and measuring religious fundamentalism among Israeli Jews and Muslim Arabs. His previous research project was a comparative historical analysis of ideological production in the Islamic world in which he studied Islamic modernism in Egypt, India, and Iran between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth; liberal nationalism in Egypt, anti-clerical secularism in Iran, liberal Arabism and pan-Arab nationalism in Syria and Iraq in the first half of the twentieth century; and Islamic fundamentalism in Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria in the second half. His latest book is The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism versus Liberal Nationalism (Columbia University Press, 2020).