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
Atabaki'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]