Abbas Milani: Difference between revisions

*[[Notre Dame de Namur University]]

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| thesis_title = Ideology and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: The Political Economy of the Ideological Currents of the Constitutional Revolution

| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16334626

| spouse = Fereshteh Davaran (?–1988; divorced),<br /> Jean Nyland

| children = 1

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'''Abbas Malekzadeh Milani''' ({{lang-fa|عباس ملک‌زاده میلانی}}; born 1949) is an [[Iranian-American]] [[historian]], educator, and author. Milani is a visiting [[professor]] of [[political science]], and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the [[Iranian Studies]] program at [[Stanford University]]. He is also a [[research fellow]] and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at [[Stanford University]]'s [[Hoover Institution]].<ref>{{Cite web|title="Culture wars" and democracy in Iran: A new politics?|url=https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/%E2%80%9Cculture-wars%E2%80%9D-and-democracy-iran-new-politics|access-date=2020-11-21|website=The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University|publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College|language=en|quote=Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kane|first=Karla|date=February 28, 2020|title=Hoover Institute hosts Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on Iran|url=https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2020/02/28/hoover-institute-hosts-intelligence-squared-us-debate-on-iran|access-date=2020-11-21|website=www.almanacnews.com|language=en}}</ref> In Milani's book, ''Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran'' (2004, Mage Publications), he has found evidence that Persian [[modernism]] dates back to more than 1,000 years ago.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Tucker |first=Ernest |date=December 2005 |title=Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, by Abbas Milani. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 2004. 168 pages. US$19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-934211-90-6 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0026318400048355/type/journal_article |journal=Middle East Studies Association Bulletin |language=en |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=231–233 |doi=10.1017/S0026318400048355 |s2cid=165060180 |issn=0026-3184}}</ref>