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Abbas Milani | |
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| عباس ملکزاده میلانی | |
 Milani in 2010 | |
| Born | Abbas Malekzadeh Milani عباس ملکزاده میلانی 1949 (age 74–75) |
| Citizenship | Iranian, American |
| Spouse(s) | Fereshteh Davaran (?–1988; divorced), Jean Nyland |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Ideology and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: The Political Economy of the Ideological Currents of the Constitutional Revolution (1975) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science and Iranian studies |
| Institutions | |
Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (Persian: عباس ملکزاده میلانی; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of political science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.[1][2] In Milani's book, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran (2004, Mage Publications), he has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1,000 years ago.[3]
- ^ ""Culture wars" and democracy in Iran: A new politics?". The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution
- ^ Kane, Karla (February 28, 2020). "Hoover Institute hosts Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on Iran". www.almanacnews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
- ^ Tucker, Ernest (December 2005). "Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, by Abbas Milani. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 2004. 168 pages. US$19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-934211-90-6". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 39 (2): 231–233. doi:10.1017/S0026318400048355. ISSN 0026-3184. S2CID 165060180.