In Search of Modern Iran

A Lecture in Persian by Professor Abbas Amanat

February 3, 2018 - 4pm - UCLA Dodd Hall

In this talk, Professor Amanat discusses the challenges and rewards of writing about a half millennium of history in his recently published book: Iran: A Modern History (Yale University Press, 2017).

Abbas Amanat is Professor of History and International Studies at Yale University and Director of the Program in Iranian Studies. His most recent book: Iran A Modern History has been published by the Yale University Press in 2017. He is also the author of Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran; Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy and Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism. Most recently he co- authored Az Tehran ta ‘Akka: Babiyan va Baha’iayan dar Asnad-e Dowran-e Qajar and co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Iranian Studies on “Iran’s Environmental Changes and Challenges.”

This event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.

IRANIAN STUDIES OUTREACH I BILINGUAL LECTURE SERIES

Lecture in Persian

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For more information visit: iranian.ucla.edu