Abbas Amanat, the Glossary
Abbas Amanat (عباس امانت; born November 14, 1947) is an Iranian-born American historian, scholar, author, editor, and university professor.[1]
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30 relations: Albert Hourani, Alborz High School, Amir Kabir, Ann Lambton, Bachelor of Arts, Baháʼí Faith, Cornell University Press, Doctor of Philosophy, Encyclopædia Iranica, Hossein Amanat, I.B. Tauris, Iranian Revolution, Iranian studies, Iranian Studies (journal), Literary Review, Monarchism in Iran, Pahlavi Iran, Qajar Iran, Shia Islam, St Catherine's College, Oxford, Stony Brook University, The Economist, The New York Review of Books, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, University of Oxford, University of Tehran, Virtual International Authority File, Yale University.
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Albert Hourani
Albert Habib Hourani (ألبرت حبيب حوراني Albart Ḥabīb Ḥūrānī; 31 March 1915 – 17 January 1993) was a liberal Lebanese British historian, specialising in the history of the Middle East and Middle Eastern studies.
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Alborz High School
Alborz High School (دبیرستان ماندگار البرز) is a college-preparatory gifted high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran.
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Amir Kabir
Mirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani (میرزا تقیخان فراهانی), better known as Amir Kabir (Persian: امیرکبیر‎; 9 January 1807 – 10 January 1852), was chief minister to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (Shah of Persia) for the first three years of his reign.
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Ann Lambton
Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton, (8 February 1912 – 19 July 2008), usually known as A.K.S. Lambton or "Nancy" Lambton, was a British historian and expert on medieval and early modern Persian history, Persian language, Islamic political theory, and Persian social organisation.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
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Cornell University Press
The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage.
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.
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Encyclopædia Iranica
Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English-language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.
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Hossein Amanat
Hossein Amanat (حسین امانت, b. 1942) is an Iranian-Canadian architect.
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I.B. Tauris
I.B. Tauris is an educational publishing house and imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (انقلاب ایران), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (label), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions.
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Iranian studies
Iranian studies (ايرانشناسی), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples.
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Iranian Studies (journal)
Iranian Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Iranian and Persianate history, literature, and society published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies (formerly known as the International Society for Iranian Studies).
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Literary Review
Literary Review is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh.
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Monarchism in Iran
Iranian monarchism is the advocacy of restoring the monarchy in Iran, which was abolished after the 1979 Revolution.
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Pahlavi Iran
The Imperial State of Iran, officially the Imperial State of Persia until 1935, and commonly referred to as Pahlavi Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty.
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Qajar Iran
The Sublime State of Iran, commonly referred to as Qajar Iran, Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, Sublime State of Persia, and also the Guarded Domains of Iran, was the Iranian state under the rule of the Qajar dynasty, which was of Turkic origin,Cyrus Ghani.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
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St Catherine's College, Oxford
St Catherine's College (colloquially called St Catz or Catz) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.
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Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, دانشگاه تهران, Dāneshgāh-e Tehran) is the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran, Iran.
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The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is an international authority file.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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See also
American Iranologists
- A. V. Williams Jackson
- Abbas Alizadeh
- Abbas Amanat
- Amy Malek
- Arthur Upham Pope
- Bahar Davary
- Beatrice Forbes Manz
- Coleman Barks
- Cyril Toumanoff
- Daniel T. Potts
- Dick Davis (translator)
- Elspeth Dusinberre
- Elton L. Daniel
- Franklin Lewis
- Gary Sick
- George Bournoutian
- Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr
- Hamid Algar
- Hamid Dabashi
- James Winston Morris
- Jerry Clinton
- Kian Tajbakhsh
- Layla S. Diba
- M. Rahim Shayegan
- Massumeh Farhad
- Matthew Canepa
- Michael M. J. Fischer
- Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
- Nina Garsoïan
- Parvaneh Pourshariati
- Paul Sprachman
- Persis Karim
- Phyllis Ackerman
- Richard Cottam
- Richard N. Frye
- Rouben Abrahamian
- Saïd Amir Arjomand
- Shaul Bakhash
- Stephen H. Rapp Jr
- William Chittick
- William O. Beeman
- Xiyue Wang