Dr. Mir Zohair Husain

Emeritus Professor

Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, International Relations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (August 1985)
Master of Arts, International Relations, University of Pennsylvania (May 1979)
Master of Arts, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania (May 1975)
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Political Science, and International Relations, University of Pennsylvania (December 1973)
Associate of Arts, Liberal Arts, Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland (August 1972)

Research

Books Published

Global Studies: Islam and the Muslim World. Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill, December 2005 (Copyright 2006).
Global Islamic Politics, 2nd ed., New York: Longman Publishers, August 2002 (Copyright 2003).
Global Islamic Politics, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, July 1994 (Copyright 1995).
Instructor's Manual and Testbank to Accompany Global Islamic Politics, published with David M. Rosenbaum. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1994.

Sample of Peer-Reviewed Articles Published

“Muslims and Terrorism,” published in Ronald Lukens-Bull and Mark Woodward (eds) Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives, NY: Springer Nature, March 2021.
Seven entries published in Jonathan Zartman’s edited encyclopedia titled Conflict in the Modern Middle East: An Encyclopedia of Civil War, Revolutions, and Regime Change. CA: Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, April 2020. [The entries were: Al-Azhar; Ba`athism; Islamism; Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei; Mohammad Khatami; Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; and Ali Shariati].
“Hitler, Stalin, and Authoritarianism: A Comparative Analysis-Part I,” a coauthored article with Scott Liebertz was published in The Journal of Psychohistory, Volume 47, June 2019, pp. 18-36.
“Hitler, Stalin, and Authoritarianism: A Comparative Analysis-Part II,” a coauthored article with Scott Liebertz was published in The Journal of Psychohistory, Volume 47, Fall 2019, pp. 103-125.
“Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru: A Concise Comparative Study” was published in the Journal of South Asian Studies (JSAS), Volume 4, Number 3, October 2016, pp. 69-79.
“Influences of Leadership Traits: A Comparative Overview of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman,” published with Brian S. Ward and Daniel Commander in White House Studies, Nova Publishers, Vol. 13, Issue 4, August 2016, pp.337-362
“American and Egyptian Culture: A Brief Comparison,” published with Mike McMullen in the Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, Routledge Publishers, Vol. 12, No. 2, July 2010, pp. 114-130.
“What Muslims Want,” in Ned Basic, ed., Rethinking Global Terrorism. International Islamic University in Islamabad, HRCPC University in Bihac and International University Consortium, February 2009. [Originally entitled “What Muslims Want in the Post-9/11 Era?” and published in Univerzitet u Bihacu in Bosnia (former Yugoslavia) Research Papers Vol. IV, Nos. 3-2, 2004, pp. 491-506].
“The Palestinians and the Kurds: A Comparative Analysis,” with Dr. Nader Entessar in Dr. Santosh C. Saha’s edited book entitled Ethnicity and Socio-political Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries: A Constructive Discourse in State Building, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield/Lexington Books, March 2008, pp. 195-209.
“Islam” in the Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics, ed. Martin Griffiths. New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 462-469.
Thirteen “Let’s Debate the Issue” articles/boxes, which were reviewed by six reviewers and published in Joshua S. Goldstein’s International Relations 6/e in July 2004, New York: Longman, copyright 2005 (each global issue is at least two large printed pages in length); Revised versions of the thirteen “Let’s Debate the Issue” boxes were republished in International Relations as the 6th update ed. (2005), 7th ed. (2006), 7th update ed. (2007), and 8th ed. (2008) by Joshua S. Goldstein and Jon C. Pevehouse, New York: Longman.
“The Politics of Islam in Pakistan,” in Santosh C. Saha and Thomas K. Carr, eds., Religious Fundamentalism in Developing Countries, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 9-48.
“The Ideologization of Islam: Meaning, Manifestations and Causes,” in A. Jerichow and J. Maek Simonsen, eds., Islam in a Changing World: Europe and the Middle East, Richmond Surrey, United Kingdom: Curzon Press, 1997, pp. 91-127.
“Islam in Pakistan Under Bhutto and Zia-ul-Haq,” in Hussin Mutalib and Taj ul-Islam Hashmi, eds., Islam, Muslims and the Modern State: Case Studies of Muslims in Thirteen Countries, London: Macmillan Publishing Company and New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1994, pp. 47-79.
“Typology of Islamic Revivalists” in Sheikh R. Ali, ed., The Third World at the Crossroads, New York: Praegar Publishers, 1989, pp. 57-67.
“The Prototypical Muslim Pragmatist and Unconventional Islamic Revivalist: Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1875-1949),” Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society (Pakistan), Vol. 36, Part IV, October 1988, pp. 325-335.
“Major Differences Between American and Pakistani Ways of Life,” Asian Review (America), Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 1987, pp. 4-7.
“Ayatollah Ruhollah al-Musavi al-Khomeini,” The Search: Journal for Arab and Islamic Studies (America), Vol. 7, Winter 1986, pp. 115-127.
“Maulana Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi: Founder of the Fundamentalist Jammat-e-Islami,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Australia), Vol. 9, No. 1, June 1986, pp. 61-82.