Vanessa Martin

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Vanessa Martin
Born30 December 1946 (1946-12-30) (age 76)
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
Fields history of modern Iran
Institutions Royal Holloway, University of London

Vanessa Martin (born 30 December 1946) is a British historian and Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is known for her research on the political, religious and social development of modern Iran from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. Chatterjee, Kingshuk (November 2016). "Vanessa Martin , Iran between Islamic Nationalism and Secularism: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2013). Pp. 286. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781780766638". International Journal of Middle East Studies . 48 (4): 789–791. doi:10.1017/S0020743816000970. ISSN   0020-7438. S2CID   163827005.
  2. Sohrabi, Nader (24 January 2015). "Iran between Islamic Nationalism and Secularism: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 by Vanessa Martin (review)". The Middle East Journal . 69 (1): 144–146. ISSN   1940-3461.
  3. Abrahamian, Ervand (4 May 2017). "Iran Between Islamic Nationalism and Secularism: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906". Iranian Studies . 50 (3): 474–476. doi:10.1080/00210862.2017.1285597. ISSN   0021-0862. S2CID   164568824.
  4. Azimi, Fakhreddin (April 2015). "Vanessa Martin. Iran between Islamic Nationalism and Secularism: The Constitutional Revolution of 1906". The American Historical Review . 120 (2): 751–752. doi:10.1093/ahr/120.2.751.