Touraj Atabaki (Persian :تورجاتابکی,born February 23,1950) is Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Leiden University. [1] He was the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. [2] He also held the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the School of Middle East Studies of Leiden University, [3] and is past president of the Association for Iranian Studies [4] and the European Society for Central Asian Studies. [2]
Atabaki earned his doctorate from Utrecht University in 1991 with a dissertation titled Ethnicity and autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan:the autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946. [3]
Atabaki's books include:
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