Searching for Azadi
A History of Unfulfilled Hopes
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SEARCHING FOR AZADI:
A History of Unfulfilled Hopes
“For more than a century Iranians strived for liberty, an ideal repeatedly hampered by forces of absolutism and intolerance. What are its Persian origins and its troubled history?”
A Lecture By Professor Abbas Amanat, Yale University
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About Dr. Abbas Amanat
Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Since 1983 he taught at Yale history of early modern and modern Iran, Shi’ism, modern Middle East, and the Persianate world. He authored ten books, most recently Iran: A Modern History (Yale University Press, 2017) and Ahd-e Qajar va Sowda-ye Farang in Persian (London, 2021). He edited and coedited thirteen volumes and published numerous articles, encyclopedia entries and Op Eds. His forthcoming books include a study of solar calendar and Iranian identity (2024 in Persian); a study of historiography and reconstruction of national identity in Iran (2024 in Persian and 2025 in English); a new biography of Fatemah Zarin-Taj Baraghani Qorrat al-Ayn Tahereh (OneWorld, 2025 in English); Companion of Qajar Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and Circle of Justice: Persian Art of Governance (Yale University Press, 2025). Amanat served as the Chair of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal of Iranian Studies and he is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming series on Sources for the Study of the Persianate World. He lives in North Haven, Connecticut and in Santa Monica, California.
