Abbas Amanat is a professor of history and international and area studies at Yale and the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. His teaching and research interests include modern Iran and the Middle East, Shi’ism, and apocalypticism. Professor Amanat is the consulting editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica. His publications include Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism (2009); Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 (1997, 2009); Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850 (1989, 2005) and In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Memory and Nationhood (1501-1989) (forthcoming). He recently co-edited Is There a Middle East: the Evolution of a Geographic Concept (2011) and Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in Historical Perspective (2012).
In his talk Professor Amanat explores the Iranian responses to anti-colonial resistance in the Indian subcontinent at the turn of the nineteenth century; a critical juncture for Iran and for the Persianate world in the global context.
Light lunch will be provided.
As part of the Iran Colloquium Series, sponsored by the Yale Program in Iranian Studies and the Council in Middle East Studies.
