# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asef-bayat
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:49:09.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asef-bayat"
name: "Asef Bayat"
slug: "asef-bayat"
description: "Asef Bayat is an Iranian-American professor of sociology. He currently holds the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Chair in Global and Transnational Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Bayat's works focuses on social movements and social change, religion and public life, and urban space and politics and contemporary Middle Eastern societies. Prior to his tenure at Illinois, Bayat was a faculty member at the American University in Cairo and served as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at Leiden University, The Netherlands, where he also held the chair of Society and Culture of the Modern Middle East. Additionally, he has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University; the University of Oxford; and Brown University."
tagline: "Iranian sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Asef_Bayat_-_Persian-American_scholar_-_UvA_2023_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.04
  momentum:             1.837899543378995
  historical:           5.703998666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "آصف بیات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%C9%99f_Bayat"
    title: "Asəf Bayat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asef_Bayat"
    title: "Asef Bayat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asef_Bayat"
    title: "Asef Bayat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asef_Bayat"
    title: "Asef Bayat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%8F%D1%82%2C_%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Баят, Асеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q920758"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump