Touraj Atabaki

Touraj Atabaki is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus, holder of the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Leiden University. He is a past President of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) and European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS). Previous publications include Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran (2000), and as editor, Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atat...See more

Touraj Atabaki is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus, holder of the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Leiden University. He is a past President of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) and European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS). Previous publications include Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran (2000), and as editor, Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah (2004), The State and the Subaltern: Modernisation, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran (2007), Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture (2009), and Working for Oil: Comparative Social History of Labour in the Global Oil Industry (2018). See less