Abbas Milani

Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (Persian: 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. 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.

Abbas Milani
عباس ملک‌زاده میلانی
Milani in 2010
Born
Abbas Malekzadeh Milani

1949 (age 7475)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
CitizenshipIranian, American
Spouse(s)Fereshteh Davaran (?–1988; divorced),
Jean Nyland
Children1
Academic background
Education
  • University of California, Berkeley (BA)
  • University of Hawaii (PhD)
ThesisIdeology and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: The Political Economy of the Ideological Currents of the Constitutional Revolution (1975)
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science and Iranian studies
Institutions
  • National University of Iran
  • University of Tehran
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Notre Dame de Namur University
  • Stanford University
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