is a legend of modern sociology and social science. There is probably no living social scientist whose work to the same degree combines advances in sociology and anthropology in the American setting in the post World War II period, historical and religious studies of civilizations outside of a Western context, and an European tradition of humanistic thought, epitomized by his teacher and predecessor in the Chair on Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Martin Buber. His most important publications are The Political System of Empires (1963), Modernization, Protest, and Change (1966), Revolution and the Transformation of Societies (1978), European Civilization in a Comparative Perspective (1987), Patterns of Modernity (1987), Power, Trust and Meaning (1995), Japanese Civilization. A Comparative View (1996), Fundamentalism, Sectarianism and Revolutions (1999), Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities (2003) and Explorations in Jewish historical experience: the civilizational dimension (2004).