Ervand Abrahamian | |
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 Abrahamian on BBC Persian in January 2020 | |
| Born | Ervand Vahan Abrahamian 1940 (age 83–84) Tehran, Iran |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse | Mary Nolan |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Oxford University (BA 1963, MA 1968) |
| Alma mater | Columbia University (MA 1966, PhD 1969) |
| Thesis | Social Bases of Iranian Politics: The Tudeh Party, 1941–53 (1969) |
| Academic advisors | Keith Thomas[1] |
| Influences | Christopher Hill, E. P. Thompson[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Iranian studies, political history, social history[2] |
| School or tradition | Marxist historiography,[2] Neo-Marxism[3][4][5] |
| Institutions | Baruch College Graduate Center, CUNY Princeton University New York University Oxford University |
| Doctoral students | Touraj Atabaki[6] |
| Main interests | Qajar dynasty, 1953 coup d'état, 1979 Revolution, Islamic Republic |
| Notable works | A History of Modern Iran (2008) Khomeinism (1993) Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982) |
Ervand Abrahamian (Persian: یرواند آبراهامیان; Armenian: Երուանդ Աբրահամեան; born 1940) is an Iranian-American historian of the Middle East. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is widely regarded as one of the leading historians of modern Iran.
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Schayegh2010was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Ricks, Thomas M. (Spring 1983). "Reviewed Work: Iran between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian". Middle East Journal. 37 (2): 268–270. JSTOR 4326573.
For the Iranian specialist well-acquainted with Professor Abrahamian's past and present published materials, the decision to follow the lead of E. P. Thompson's neo-Marxist approach throughout the book comes as no surprise.
- ^ McLachlan, Keith (Spring 1983). "Reviewed Works: Iran Since the Revolution. by Sepehr Zabih; Iran between Two Revolutions. by Ervand Abrahamian". International Affairs. 59 (2): 305–306. doi:10.2307/2620007. JSTOR 2620007.
Professor Abrahamian proposes that a neo-Marxist approach to contemporary Iranian history is the only one compatible with persuasive socio-political analysis.
- ^ Sealy, Aaron Vahid (2011). ""In Their Place": Marking and Unmarking Shi'ism in Pahlavi Iran" (PDF). University of Michigan. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 3, 2021.
Ervand Abrahamian is the most prominent neo-Marxist historian of the Pahlavi period.
- ^ "Touraj Atabaki". International Institute of Social History. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on February 28, 2020.