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Hadi Enayat is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. His research focuses on the political sociology of the Middle East with a particular focus on Iran. He previously worked at the refugee rights organisation Praxis based in London and has worked as an expert witness for the UK courts working on Iranian asylum cases.
He specialises in the political sociology of the Middle East with a particular focus on religion, law, political theology and intellectual history. He is the author of Law, State and Society in Modern Iran (Palgrave Macmillan 2013 – winner of the Biennial Mossadegh Prize 2013), Islam and Secularism in Post-Colonial Thought: A Cartography of Asadian Genealogies (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Power, Institutions and the Limits of Reform (co-edited with Mirjam Kuenkler, Cambridge University Press 2025) and Contemporary Trends in Sharia: Critical Debates in Historical Context (forthcoming, Bloomsbury 2026).
Expertise: Political sociology, socio-legal studies, intellectual history