Touraj Atabaki

Touraj Atabaki
Touraj Atabaki, Iranian scholar
Born (1950-02-23) 23 February 1950 (age 74)
Tehran, Iran
CitizenshipIranian–Dutch
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisEthnicity and Autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan: the Autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946 (1991)
Doctoral advisorErvand Abrahamian
Academic work
DisciplineSocial History
Institutions
Websiteatabaki.nl

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]

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]

  1. ^ "Turaj Atabaki". Leiden University. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Atabaki, Touraj 1950-", Contemporary Authors, retrieved 2017-11-02
  3. ^ a b "Touraj Atabaki", Leidse hoogleraren vanaf 1575, Leiden University, retrieved 2017-11-07
  4. ^ 2017 Officers, Association for Iranian Studies, retrieved 2017-11-07