Hadi Enayat

​Hadi Enayat

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Biography

Hadi Enayat is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at Aga Khan University in London and Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy-Centre, UK. He specialises in the political sociology of the Middle East with a particular focus on Iran. He previously worked at the refugee rights organization Praxis based in London and has worked as an expert witness for the U.K courts working on Iranian asylum cases.


​Research Interests

  • Political Sociology

  • Socio-Legal Studies

  • Secularism Studies

  • Sociology of Afghan cricket diasporas in the U.K and Germany

  • Intellectual and social history of the relationship between Islam and the Left​

Publications

  • Enayat, H. (2013), Law, State and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy and Legal Reform: 1906-1941 (London: Palgrave Macmillan – winner of the Biennial Mossadegh Prize, 2013).  

  • Enayat, H. (2017), Islam and Secularism in Post-Colonial Thought: A Cartography of Asadian Genealogies (London: Palgrave Macmillan). 

  • ​Enayat, H. & Keshavjee, M. (forthcoming 2025), Rethinking Sharia: Essays on Critical Debates in Historical and Political Context (London: Bloomsbury Publishers).

  • Enayat, H. & Kuenkler, M. (2025), The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Power, Institutions and the Limits of Reform (New York: Cambridge University Press).

  • Enayat, H. (2021), “Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities" in Steinberg, L. & Wood, P. (eds)The Politics of Islamic Studies: European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).

  • Enayat, H. (2020), “UK Think-tanks, the War on Terror and the Radicalisation Debate", Abdou-Filali Ansari Occasional Paper Series, December, (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations).

  • Enayat, H. (2019), “The Modern Legal Subject and Citizenship in Post-constitutionalist and Pahlavi Iran", Oñati Law Journal.

 

Contact 

hadi.enayat@aku.edu