| 词条 | Abbas Amanat |
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Early life and educationA graduate of Alborz High School (Tehran, 1966), he received his B.A. from Tehran University in social sciences in 1971 and his D.Phil. from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University in 1981. He studied with Albert Hourani and John Gurney as well as with Wilferd Madelung, Roger Owen, Hamid Enayat and Wilfred Knapp. The external examiner of his D.Phil. dissertation: "Emergence and Early Development of the Babi Movement, 1844–1850", successfully defended in Hilary 1981, was Ann Lambton. He later was appointed as a fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford (1981–1982). At the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Tehran University Amanat studied with Gholam Hosain Sadighi, Ehsan Naraghi, Mohammad Khwansari, Ziya al-Din Sajjadi, Ahmad Fardid, Shapur Rasekh, Alimorad Davudi, and Jamshid Behnam. Amanat is the third child of Mousa Amanat, a businessman (who has also published on the history of Kashan, Iran), and Besharat Khavari-Amanat, a descendant of a family of Jewish physicians from Kashan (whose patriarch, Hakim Harun Kashani, was a prominent member of the Jewish community of Kashan). His paternal grandfather, who converted to the Bahá'í Faith at the turn of the 20th century, was engaged in the silk trade of Kashan. Abbas Amanat is a brother of the architect Hossein Amanat who designed the Shahyad Azadi Tower in Tehran, and Mehrdad Amanat, who is a historian of Iran. Abbas Amanat is married to Maryam Sanjabi-Amanat, a specialist of eighteenth-century French literature, and a senior lecturer at the Department of French Studies at Yale University. CareerAmanat began teaching first in the Program of Religious Studies at SUNY Stony Brook in 1982 and soon after was appointed as assistant professor in the Department of History, Yale University in the fall of 1983. In 2018 he is professor of history and director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. Amanat is a historian of Iran, Shia Islam, and the modern Middle East. He specializes in Qajar Iran as well as in the history of messianic and apocalyptic movements in the Islamic world.[2] Among other topics he has written about Iranian identity and changing attitudes among Iranians over time.[3] Amanat was a Carnegie Scholar of Islamic Studies (2005–2007) and the recipient of the Mellon-Sawyer Grant for comparative study of millennialism (1998–2001). He was the editor-in-chief of Iranian Studies, journal of the International Association for Iranian Studies (1991–98), and chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University (1993–2004). Amanat is the consulting editor for Qajar History at the Encyclopædia Iranicaand member of the board of directors of Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. He is the author of 25 entries in the Encyclopædia Iranicaon the history of the Qajar period, including: "Constitutional Revolution," "Court and Courtiers: Qajar Period," "Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar," "Great Britain: British Influence in Persia in the 19th Century," "Historiography: Qajar Period," "Historiography: Pahlavi Period," "Islam in Iran: Messianic Movements," and "Hajji Baba of Ispahan.' Amanat has published numerous journal articles and contributed to volumes of essays. He also edited and co-edited several volumes including most recently with Assef Ashraf, The Persianate World: Rethinking A Shared Space, Leiden and Boston, Brill Publishers, 2018 and with Farzin Vejdani, Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in Historical Perspective New York, Palgrave MacMillan, January 2012. Books
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References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://history.yale.edu/people/abbas-amanat |title=Abbas Amanat |author= |website=Yale University |access-date= June 5, 2016 |quote=}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Apocalyptic Islam: Interview with Dr. Abbas Amanat|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/10/may/1100.html|website=Payvand.com}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Nile Green|title=The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__uxCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA329|date=24 November 2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-7413-2|pages=329–}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Farzaneh Milani|title=Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-erELGAyBWUC&pg=PA254|year=1992|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-0266-8|pages=254–}} 5. ^1 {{cite book|author=Hamid Dabashi|title=Shi'ism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nycIekt7ZV8C&pg=PA374|date=7 May 2012|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-05875-0|pages=374–}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Abbas Milani|title=The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution : a Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsCJK-c87oQC&pg=PA352|year=2000|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-85043-328-6|pages=352–}} External links
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