Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
April 30, 2014
4:00pm - 6:00pm
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies , Room 102
38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
About
Abbas Amanat received his B.A. from Tehran University in 1971 and D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1981. His principal publications include Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism (2009), Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (1997), and Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850 (1989). Currently he is writing In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Nationhood and Culture (1501-2001), a survey of Iranian history (Yale, 2008); a study of toleration and nonconformity in the Persianate world, a biography of the Babi leader and poet Fatima Baraghani Qurrat al-‘Ayn (Tahirah) and a documentary history of Qajar Iran (in Persian).
