12 Facts About Abbas Amanat

Abbas Amanat is an Iranian-born American historian, scholar, author, editor, and university professor.

Abbas Amanat serves as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies.

Abbas Amanat studied with Albert Hourani and John Gurney as well as with Wilfred Madelung, Roger Owen, Hamid Enayat and Wilfred Knapp.

Abbas Amanat later was appointed as a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Abbas Amanat is the brother of architect Hossein Amanat and Mehrdad Amanat.

Abbas Amanat began teaching first in the Program of Religious Studies at SUNY Stony Brook in 1982 and soon after was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of History, Yale University in the fall of 1983.

Abbas Amanat is a historian of Iran, Shia Islam, and the modern Middle East.

Abbas Amanat specializes in Qajar Iran as well as in the history of messianic and apocalyptic movements in the Islamic world.

Abbas Amanat was a Carnegie Scholar of Islamic Studies and the recipient of the Mellon-Sawyer Grant for comparative study of millennialism.

Abbas Amanat was the Editor-in-Chief of Iranian Studies, journal of the International Association for Iranian Studies, and chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University.

Abbas Amanat has published numerous journal articles and contributed to volumes of essays.

Abbas Amanat 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.