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Ervand Abrahamian
Ervand Abrahamian | |
|---|---|
 Abrahamian on BBC Persian in January 2020 | |
| Born | Ervand Vahan Abrahamian 1940 (age 84–85) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse | Mary Nolan |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St John's College, Oxford (BA, MA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| 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.
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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.
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