John C . Calvert, BA, PhD

Department

History

Position

Professor

Books

• Routledge Handbook of Political Islam
  Calvert John, ISLAMISM BEYOND POLITICS Sayyid Qutb's journey to radicalism [Book Chapter] 2021
• Quṭb Sayyid, Calvert John, Shepard William E, , A child from the village 2016
• The Routledge History of Terrorism
  Calvert John, THE ROOTS OF ISLAMISM AND ISLAMIST VIOLENCE [Book Chapter] 2015
• Calvert John, Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, Picture Credits [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, The Politics of Oil [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, The Gulf War and its Aftermath [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, Political Developments in the Gulf [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
  Calvert John, Wayward Son: The Muslim Brothers’ Reception of Sayyid Qutb [Book Chapter] 2013
• Berger L G, Palmer Harik J, Ouazghari K, Calvert J, Eldar A, Meyer H, Tessler M, Zubaida S, Religious Fundamentalism as an Obstacle to Peace in the Middle East: Under What Conditions Might Pragmatism Prevail? 2012
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Intro [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, TURN TO ISLAMISM [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, MARTYRDOM [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, THE MAKING OF AN EGYPTIAN NATIONALIST [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, IN THE ORBIT OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERS [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, RADICALIZATI ON [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, EPILOUGE: THE TRAJECTORY OF ‘QUTBISM’ [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, AMERICAN SOJOURN [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, SON OF THE COUNTRY [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, A Note on Transliteration [Book Chapter] 2011
• The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
  Calvert John C., Wayward Son : The Muslim Brother's Reception of Sayyid Qutb [Book Chapter] 2011
• Calvert John C., Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism 2010
• Calvert John, Divisions within Islam 2010
• , Sunni Islam 2010
• , Shiism 2010
• Encyclopedia of African Thought
  Calvert John C., Gamal Abdul Nasser [Book Chapter] 2010
• Encyclopedia of African Thought
  Calvert John C., Ibn Khaldoun [Book Chapter] 2010
• Calvert John, Sayyid Qutb and the origins of radical Islam 2009
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Half-title [Book Chapter] 2009
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Radicalization [Book Chapter] 2009
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Epilogue the Trajectory of ‘Qutbism’ [Book Chapter] 2009
• Encyclopedia of African Biography
  Calvert John C., Ibn Battuta [Book Chapter] 2009
• Calvert John C., Islamism: A Documentary and Reference Guide. 2008
• Terrorism, democracy: the west & the muslim world
  Calvert John, The 'Mythic' Foundations of Radical Islamist Violence [Book Chapter] 2007
• Calvert John C., The Arabian Peninsula in the age of oil (The making of the Middle East) 2007
• Terrorism: A Documentary and Reference Guide
  Calvert John C., An Islamist's view of America [Book Chapter] 2005
• World Book Encyclopedia
  Calvert John C., Madrasah [Book Chapter] 2005
• , Islam and modernity 2004

General

• Calvert John, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison 2021
• Calvert John, War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought 2020
• Calvert John, Sons of the Country: Nasser, Qutb, and the Struggle that Defined Egypt 2019
• Calvert John, Subjects, Citizens, and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918 2019
• Calvert John, EGYPT-Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash that Shaped the Middle East 2018
• Calvert John C., Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual 2013
• Calvert John, Brown Nathan, Sayyid Qutb and the origins of radical Islamism 2011
• Calvert JOHN, MANSOOR MOADDEL, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Pp. 448. $24.00 paper 2007
• Calvert John, Securalism and the Arab World 2004
• Calvert JOHN, NAZIK SABA YARED, Secularism and the Arab World (1850–1939) (London: Saqi Books, 2002). Pp. 251 2004
• Calvert John C., Secularism and the Arab world (1850-1939) 2004
• Calvert John, All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army, and the Making of Modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy 2000
• Calvert John, The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths; Haggai Erlich; Israel Gershoni, Eds 2000
• Calvert John, Review of 'Khaled Mohi El Din, Memories of a Revolution The American University in Cairo Press (1995)' 1999
• Calvert J, Radical Islamism and the Jews: The view of Sayyid Qutb 1996
• Calvert John, EARLE H. WAUGH, SHARON McIRVIN ABU-LABAN and REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI, editors 'Muslim Families in North America' (Book Review) 1992

Articles

• Creighton University Magazine
  Casper Henry W., S. J., Calvert John C., Afganistan's Taliban, p. 14 - 17 2010
• Creighton University Magazine
  Calvert John C., The Shi'a of Iraq
  2007, p. 10 - 15 2007

Publications

• Middle East Journal
  Calvert John C., Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
  71:1, p. 174 - 175 2017
• Orient - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Politik und Wirtschaft des Orients
  Calvert John, The Historical Contingency of Islamist Discourse in Egypt: Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood
  54:1, p. 45 - 51 2013
• Orient - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Politik und Wirtschaft des Orients
  Calvert John, Regional Struggle in the Shadow of Pan-Islamic Militancy: Examples from Indonesia and Bosnia
  52:4, p. 31 - 34 2011
• Foreign Policy
  Calvert John C., The Afterlife of Sayyid Qutb 2010
• International Journal of Middle East Studies
  Calvert John C., Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse (Book Review)
  39:3, p. 461 - 462 2007
• Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
  Calvert John C., The Striving Shaykh: Abdullah Azzam and the Revival of Jihad.
  2007:Supplement Series 2 2007
• History of political thought
  Calvert J, The quaker theory of a civil constitution
  XXVII:4, p. 586 - 619 2006
• Al-Katib
  Calvert John C., Pigeons in New York
  1949, p. 666 - 669 2005
• Al-Risala
  Calvert John C., The America I Saw
  959:1951, p. 1301 - 1306 2005
• Al-Risala
  Calvert John C., Our First Enemy: The White Man.
  1952, p. 1217 - 1219 2005
• Historical reflections
  Calvert John, Sayyid Qutb and the Power of Political Myth: Insights from Sorel
  30:3, p. 509 - 528 2004
• Historical reflections
  Calvert J, Islam and modernity - Introduction
  30:3, p. 359 - 361 2004
• Orbis (Philadelphia)
  Peters Edward, Calvert John, Black Jeremy, The American encounter with Islam
  48:1, p. 3 - 41 2004
• Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs
  Calvert John C., The Mythic Foundations of Radical Islam
  48:1, p. 29 - 41 2004
• Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs
  Calvert John C., The Islamist Syndrome of Cultural Confrontation
  46:2, p. 333 - 349 2002
• ISIM Newsletter
  Calvert J, Sayyid Qutb in America
  7:1, p. 8 - 8 2001
• The Muslim world (Hartford)
  Calvert John, The Individual and the Nation in Twentieth-Century Egyptian Autobiography: Sayyid Qutb's 'Tifl min al-Qarya (Child from the Village)'
  90:1, p. 107 2000
• Islam & Christian Muslim relations
  Calvert John, 'The world is an undutiful boy!': Sayyid Qutb's American experience
  11:1, p. 87 - 103 2000
• The Muslim world (Hartford)
  Calvert John, The Individual and the Nation: Sayyid Qutb's Tifl min al-Qarya (child from the Village)
  90:1-2, p. 108 - 132 2000

Awards

• Outstanding Publications and Book Awards
  Recognition for my book Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. The Atlantic Monthly (15 December 2010): "Outstanding book from 2010 in Middle East Studies; " Foreign Policy (15 December, 2010): "best book of 2010; " The Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council's blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere, "Book of the Week", 17 August, 2010; The Guardian (27 November, 2010), One of the "Books of the year."
  Various organizations