Education
PhD – Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, 2012
Master Recherche – Sociétés et politiques comparées/Monde musulman, Sciences Po, Paris, 2005
BA – Modern History, University of Oxford, 1998 Publications
Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences: Discourse on the Condition of Im-possibility. Javad Tabatabai. Translated by Philip Grant. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2024
“Time Forged Manacles”, in
Catastrophe Time!, ed. Gary Zhexi Zhang. London:
Strange Attractor/Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Chains of Finance. How Investment Management is Shaped. Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Philip Grant, Iain Hardie, Donald MacKenzie, Ekaterina Svetlova. Oxford: OUP, 2017
“Our agencies: persuasion and the value of a concept to mainstreaming co-operation”, in
Mainstreaming Co-operation: An Alternative for the Twenty-First Century?, ed. Anthony Webster, Linda Shaw, and Rachel Vorberg-Rugh. Manchester: UMP, 2016.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Waterscape and Infrastructure in the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate (869-883)”, part of the “Landscapes of Crisis” panel series, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 3rd July 2024 Memberships
American Translators Association
International Board Member,
The Markaz Review
Medieval Academy of America
Middle East Studies Association
