Farhad Nomani

Farhad Nomani has contributed a paper to Scripta Politica and Economica, Vol.30, Fall 2011, on "The Curious Student's Guide to Euro-Drama: Euro-zone and the Sovereign Debt Crisis."

Farhad Nomani has been at AUP since 1984 as Senior Lecturer, and later as Professor, in the Department of Economics. In 1972, after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois-Urbana, he joined the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tehran. He left his position at Tehran University in 1983.

While in Iran, Nomani wrote university textbooks on comparative economic systems, political economy of underdevelopment, economic growth, economic performance and economic history of Iran, and published the first volume of The Development of Feudalism in Iran. He also translated in Persian some of the works of Oscar Lange, Paul Sweezy, Paul Baran, Maurice Dobb, and Alec Nove in economics and political economy, Maurice Cornforth in epistemology, and Eric Hobsbawm in history.

He is the co-editor of Islam and Public Policy (1997, Jai Press Inc.), co-author of Islamic Economic Systems (1994, Zed Press), co-author of The Secular Miracle: Religion, Politics & Economic Policy in Iran (1990, Zed Press). These books have been widely reviewed in scholarly journals, have been used as textbooks in area studies, parts of them have been translated in two other languages, and they have been presented as reference books in university syllabi as well as in general and specialized encyclopedias. Nomani’s latest co-authored books are Class and Labor in Iran: Did Revolution Matter? (Syracuse University Press) which in November 2007 received The Association of Third World Studies' book-length award, and Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas (Routledge 2006).

At AUP he has taught principles of Micro-and- macroeconomics, intermediate micro-and-macroeconomics, managerial economics, comparative economic systems, economic development, European economic integration, international monetary economics and Islamic economic systems.

  Recent articles

Farhad Nomani, "The Curious Student's Guide to Euro-Drama: Euro-zone and the Sovereign Debt Crisis", Scripta Politica and Economica, Fall 2011, Vol. XXX.

Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad, "Democracy, Civil Society, and the Iranian Working Class", in R. Jahanbeglou (ed.), Civil Society and Democracy in Iran (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory), Lexington Books. November 2011.

Farhad Nomani, "What a Revolution! Thirty Years of Social Class Reshuffling in Iran", co-authored with S. Behdad, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, volume 29(1), 2009.

F. Nomani and Sohrab Behdad, "The Rise and Fall of Iranian Classes in the Post-Revolutionary Decades," Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3, 2008.

F. Nomani. 2003. "The problem of interest and Islamic banking in a comparative perspective: the case of Egypt, Iran and Pakistan". Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, vol 1., no 1.

F. Nomani (with S. Behdad). 2002. "Workers, Peasants, and Peddlers: A Study of Labor Stratification in the Post-revolutionary Iran". International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 34. F. Nomani. 2002.

"The Interpretative debate of the Classical Islamic Jurists on Riba (Usury)". Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies, vol. 4, the online journal of MEEA, www.meeaweb.org.

  Books

S. Behdad and F. Nomani, eds,1997. Islam and Public Policy. Jai Press Inc.

F. Nomani and A. Rahnema. 1994. Islamic Economic Systems, Zed Press.
A. Rahnema and F. Nomani,1990. The Secular Miracle : Religion, politics and Economic Policy in Iran. Zed Press.
F. Nomani and S. Behdad, 2006. Class and Labor in Iran: Did Revolution Matter?. Syracuse University Press.
F. Nomani and S. Behdad, 2006. Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas. Routledge.

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