Abbas Amanat

Abbas Amanat (Persian: عباس امانت‎‎) (born November 14, 1947) is an Iranian-American Professor of History & International Studies at Yale University. He received his B.A. from Tehran University in 1971 and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1981. He is the brother of the architect Hossein Amanat who designed the Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran and the Seat of the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel.

Amanat began teaching in the Department of History, Yale University in 1983. In 2015 he is a Professor of History and International Studies 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 history of messianic and apocalyptic movements in the Islamic world.

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