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Abbas Milani
Iranian-American historian and author (born 1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | Abbas Malekzadeh Milani عباس ملکزاده میلانی 1949 (age 74–75) |
Citizenship | Iranian, American |
Spouse(s) | Fereshteh Davaran (?–1988; divorced), Jean Nyland |
Children | 1 |
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Thesis | Ideology and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: The Political Economy of the Ideological Currents of the Constitutional Revolution (1975) |
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Discipline | Political science and Iranian studies |
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