Ali Gheissari

Sociology of Knowledge, University of Essex (MA) Ali Gheissari (born 1954) is an Iranian historian and sociologist.

“Fruits of the Gardens: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Textual Pleasures in late Qajar Iran,” in Journal of Persianate Studies (2024), no.

On the Concept of Time: Conversation with Ahmad Fardid, complete transcription of an interview dated January 1980, with notes and additions, Qom: Nashr-e Movarrekh, 2022, 120pp (new edition, 2023).

“Unequal Treaties and the Question of Sovereignty in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran,” Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture, Durham Middle East Papers No.

Fruits of Gardens by Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni: A Philosophical Miscellany in Arabic and Persian in late Qajar Iran, c. 1914 (Fawāka al-Basātin: Montakhabāti Falsafi, Eʿteqādi, Revāʾi dar Avākher-e Qājāriyeh, asar-e Hājj Mirzā Mohammad Tehrāni), Complete Arabic and Persian Text, in collaboration with Ali-Reza Abāzari, with an Introduction by Ali Gheissari, Qom: Nashr-e Movarrekh, 2019, 431pp; (new edition, 2024).

Majalleh-ye Estebdād (Journal of Despotism), complete set of a rare satirical periodical published in 1907-1908, during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, edited with an Introduction and additions by Ali Gheissari, Tehran: Nashr-e Tārikh-e Iran, 2019, 744pp.

Tabriz and Rasht in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Memoirs of Hājj Mohammad-Taqi Jourābchi (Harfi az Hezārān ke-andar ʿEbārat Āmad), complete text with additions, edited with an Introduction by Ali Gheissari, Tehran: Nashr-e Tārikh-e Iran, (363 pp).

“Iran's Dialectic of Enlightenment: Constitutional Experience, Transregional Connections, and Conflicting Narratives of Modernity,” in Ali M. Ansari (ed.

), Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and Narratives of the Enlightenment, University of Chicago Press (distributed for Gingko Library), 2016, pp.

“Authorial Voices and the Sense of an Ending in Persian Diaries: Notes on Eʿtemād al-Saltaneh and ʿAlam,” Iranian Studies, 49/4, July 2016, pp.

“Constitutional Revolution in Iran.” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edition, Editor-in-Chief: Richard C. Martin, New York, NY: Macmillan Reference, 2016, pp.

“Khatt va Rabt: The Significance of Private Papers for Qajar Historiography,” Gingko Library, News Blog, originally posted on 5 August 2015. https://www.gingko.org.uk/essays/khatt-va-rabt-significance-private-papers-qajar-historiography/ Archived 2021-09-09 at the Wayback Machine • Gheissari, Ali (2013).

“The U.S. Coup of 1953 in Iran, Sixty Years On,” Passport, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, 44/2, September 2013, pp.

“Mahmud Sanai (1919-1985): professor of Persian literature and of psychology, psychoanalyst, educator, writer, translator, and government official,” Encyclopædia Iranica.

“Shadman (Šādmān), Sayyed Fakhr-al-Din (1907-1967): Cultural Critic and Writer of Fiction, Professor of History, Civil Servant, and Cabinet Minister,” Encyclopædia Iranica.

“New Conservative Politics and Electoral Behavior in Iran,” co-author Kaveh Cyrus Sanandaji, in Ali Gheissari (ed.

“Merchants without Borders: Trade, Travel, and a Revolution in late Qajar Iran,” in Roxane Farmanfarmaian (ed.

“Truth and Method in Modern Iranian Historiography and Social Sciences,” Critique (Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East), Vol.

Kant on Time and Other Essays (Persian title: Zamān az Didgāh-e Kānt va Chand Maqāleh-ye Digar) (authored), Tehran: Khwārazmi Publishers, 2018.

Persian translation of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics(Persian title: Bonyād-e Mābaʿd al-Tabiʿa-ye Akhlāq: Goftāri dar Hekmat-e Kerdār), with Hamid Enayat, Tehran: Khwārazmi Publishers, 1991; new edition, Tehran: Khwārazmi Publishers, 2015.

“On Transcendental Constitution of the Self and of the Other” (Persian title: “Khod, Digari, Digarān: Jostāri dar bāb-e Taqavvom-e Esteʿlāʾi), in In Search of Reason and Liberty:ʿEzzatollāh Fulādvand Festschrift (Dar Jostuju-ye Kherad va Āzādi: Arjnāmeh-ye ʿEzzatollā Fulādvand), Tehran: Minu-ye Kherad Publishers, 2017, pp.

“Time in Formal Logic” (Persian title: “Zamān dar Manteq-e Suri”), Falsafeh (Philosophy), Vol.

“Lukacs on True and False Consciousness” (Persian title: “Āgāhi-ye Dorost va Nādorost az Didgāh-e Lukāch”), Falsafeh (Philosophy), No.

“Structure and the Question of Subjectivity: Notes on the Theory of Knowledge” (Persian title: “Qaziyeh-ye Sākhtār va Zehn dar Nazariyeh-ye Shenākht”), Falsafeh (Philosophy), No.

“Interpretation in the Sociology of Knowledge” (Persian title: “Tafsir dar Jāmeʿeh-shenāsi-ye Maʿrefat”), Falsafeh (Philosophy), No.

Persian translation of Immanuel Kant's “Preface” to Critique of Practical Reason, with terminological glossary, notes and commentary, Falsafeh (Philosophy), No.

“Outline for a Phenomenology of Imagination,” Persian translation by Ali Moʿazzami, as “Darāmadi bar Padidār-Shenāsi-ye Takhayyol,” in Shapur Etemad et al.

), Metaphysics and Science: Essays in the Memory of Yusef Aliābādi, Tehran, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2005, pp.