Abbas Milani
Iranian-American historian, political scientist, and scholar of contemporary Iran. He is a specialist in modern Iranian history, Iranian politics, U.S.-Iran relations, and Iranian cultural and intellectual history. He is a founding co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He previously taught at Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Science, where he also served on the Board of Directors of the university’s Center for International Relations. After moving to the United States, he was Chair of the Political Science Department at Notre Dame de Namur University for fourteen years and a visiting research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Middle East Center for eight years.
- IRANSHENASI
IRANSHENASI, a journal of Iranian studies, which began publication under the editorship of Jalāl Matini and with the help of…
- IRAN NAMEH
IRAN NAMEH, the oldest post-Islamic Revolution scholarly journal published by the Iranian Diaspora. It is, as the cover of every…
- HOVEYDA, AMIR-ABBAS
HOVEYDA, AMIR-ABBAS (Amir ʿAbbās Hoveydā), the longest serving prime minister in the modern history of Iran (b. 28 Bahman 1297…
- HEKMAT, ʿALI-AṢḠAR
HEKMAT (Ḥekmat), ʿALI-AṢḠAR, man of letters, university professor, cabinet minister, and the chief architect of the modernization of the educational…
- HEKMAT, REŻĀ SARDĀR FĀḴER
HEKMAT (Ḥekmat), REŻĀ SARDĀR FĀḴER, politician and the powerful speaker of the House of Representatives (Majles; b. Tehran, ca. 1308/1891;…
- ḤAKIMI, EBRĀHIM
ḤAKIMI (Ḥakim-al-Molk), EBRĀHIM (b. Tabriz, 1288/1871 [1286 in ʿĀqeli, p. 589, is incorrect]; d. Tehran, 27 Mehr 1338 Š./19 October…
- GOLŠĀʾIĀN, ʿABBĀSQOLI
GOLŠĀʾIĀN, ʿABBĀSQOLI (b. 1281 Š./1902; d. 1369 Š./1990; Figure 1), civil servant, minister in various cabinets, and governor-general of major…
- ḠANĪ, QĀSEM
ḠANĪ, QĀSEM (b. Sabzavār, 3 Ramażān 1310/21 March 1893; d. San Francisco, 9 Farvardīn 1331 Š./29 March 1952; Figure 1),…