Said Amir Arjomand (Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1980) has been at Stony Brook since 1978, and is currently the Editor of theJournal of Persianate Studies. Arjomand is the author ofThe Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Organization and SocietalChangein Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to l890, the University of Chicago Press, l984;The Turban for the Crown. The Islamic revolution in Iran, Oxford University Press, 1988; andAfter Khomeini, Iran under his Successors, Oxford University Press, 2009. His article, "Constitutions and the Struggle for Political Order: A Study in the