#  Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan and Transregional Resistance to British Raj 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 30, 2014** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

**The Center for Middle Eastern Studies** is pleased to present

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Abbas Amanat  
Professor of History & International Studies, Yale UniversityAbbas Amanat received his B.A. from Tehran University in 1971 and D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1981. His principal publications include *Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism* (2009), *Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896* (1997), and *Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850* (1989). He is the editor of *Cities and Trade: Consul Abbott on the Economy and Society of Iran* (1983), *Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity* (1995), and co-editor of *Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective* (2012), *Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept* (2011), *Imagining the End: Visions of Apocalypse from Ancient Middle East to Modern America* (2002); *Shari’a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context* (2007); and *U.S.-Middle East Historical Encounters: A Critical Survey* (2007). He also edited *The United States and the Middle East: Diplomatic and Economic Relations in Historical Perspective* (2000) and co-edited *The United States and the Middle East: Cultural Encounters* (2002) and *Apocalypse and Violence* (2004).  
  
Currently he is writing *In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Nationhood and Culture (1501-2001)*, a survey of Iranian history (Yale, 2008); a study of toleration and nonconformity in the Persianate world, a biography of the Babi leader and poet Fatima Baraghani Qurrat al-‘Ayn (Tahirah) and a documentary history of Qajar Iran (in Persian).  
  
Abbas Amanat was a Carnegie Scholar of Islamic Studies (2005-2007). He also was the recipient of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Grant for comparative study of Millennialism (1998-2001). He is a Consulting Editor and longtime contributor to *Encyclopedia Iranica* where his major entries include “Constitutional Revolution” (1994); “Great Britain in Qajar Persia” (2002); “Hajji Baba of Ispahan” (2003) “Historiography of Qajar Iran” (2004), “Historiography of Pahlavi Iran” (2004) and “Islam in Iran: Messianism” (2007). He is the General Editor of Persia Observed series (Mage Publishers) which includes extensive introductions to new editions of E.G. Browne’s *Persian Revolution* (1995) and C.J. Wills *The Land of the Lion and the Sun* (2004). He was the Editor-in-Chief of *Iranian Studies*, the journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies (1991-98) ) and served as the chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale (1993-2004). He is currently Director of the Iranian Studies Initiative at Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

**Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ Iran ](/research-region/iran)
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