Touraj Atabaki (Persian: تورج اتابکی, born February 23, 1950) is Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Leiden University.[1] He was the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.[2] He also held the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the School of Middle East Studies of Leiden University,[3] and is past president of the Association for Iranian Studies[4] and the European Society for Central Asian Studies.[2]
Touraj Atabaki | |
|---|---|
 Touraj Atabaki, Iranian scholar | |
| Born | 23 February 1950 |
| Citizenship | Iranian–Dutch |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Ethnicity and Autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan: the Autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946 (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ervand Abrahamian |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social History |
| Institutions | |
| Website | atabaki |
Atabaki earned his doctorate from Utrecht University in 1991 with a dissertation titled Ethnicity and autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan: the autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946.[3]
Books
editAtabaki's books include:
- Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture (I. B. Tauris, 2009)[5]
- The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran (edited, I. B. Tauris, 2007)[6]
- Iran and the First World War: Battleground of the Great Powers (edited, I. B. Tauris, 2006)
- Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah (I. B. Tauris, 2004)[7]
- Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran (I. B. Tauris, 2000)[8]
- Post-Soviet Central Asia (with John O'Kane, I. B. Tauris, 1998)[9]
- Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and Autonomy in Twentieth-Century Iran (British Academic Press, 1993)[10]
References
edit- ^ "Turaj Atabaki". Leiden University. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Atabaki, Touraj 1950-", Contemporary Authors, retrieved 2017-11-02
- ^ a b "Touraj Atabaki", Leidse hoogleraren vanaf 1575, Leiden University, retrieved 2017-11-07
- ^ 2017 Officers, Association for Iranian Studies, retrieved 2017-11-07
- ^ Review of Iran in the 20th century:
- Ali Gheissari (2011), Iranian Studies 44 (6): 913–917, doi:10.1080/00210862.2011.586815.
- ^ Reviews of The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran:
- Feroz Ahmad (May 2008), Journal of Islamic Studies 19 (2): 271–273, doi:10.1093/jis/etn007;
- David Mason (2010), MELA Notes 83: 69–72, JSTOR 29785938.
- ^ Reviews of Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah:
- Afshin Marashi (June 2006), Iranian Studies 39 (2): 287–290, JSTOR 4311824;
- C. Dodd (2006), Journal of Islamic Studies 17 (1): 91–92, doi:10.1093/jis/eti187.
- ^ Review of Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran:
- Mary Zeng (2014), Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 1 (1-2): 257–260, doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.1.1-2.257.
- ^ Review of Post-Soviet Central Asia:
- Anoushiravan Ehteshami (Winter 1999), Slavic Review 58 (4): 908–909, doi:10.2307/2697225.
- ^ Reviews of Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and Autonomy in Twentieth-century Iran:
- Adeeb Khalid (1995), Slavic Review 54 (3): 819–820, doi:10.2307/2501826;
- Houri Berberian (Summer–Autumn 1996), Iranian Studies 29 (3/4): 367–371, JSTOR 4311003.