Touraj Atabaki

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Touraj Atabaki (born 23 February 1950 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian‑Dutch historian and Emeritus Professor of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. He was the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and has held the chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. He has also served as president of the Association for Iranian Studies and the European Society for Central Asian Studies.

Education and career:
He studied at the National University of Iran, the University of London, and Utrecht University, where he earned his PhD in 1991 with the dissertation Ethnicity and Autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan: the Autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946, supervised by Ervand Abrahamian. He has worked at Utrecht University, the International Institute of Social History, the University of Amsterdam, and Leiden University.

Selected books and works:
- Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture (I. B. Tauris, 2009)
- The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran (edited, I. B. Tauris, 2007)
- Iran and the First World War: Battleground of the Great Powers (edited, I. B. Tauris, 2006)
- Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah (I. B. Tauris, 2004)
- Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran (I. B. Tauris, 2000)
- Post-Soviet Central Asia (with John O’Kane, I. B. Tauris, 1998)
- Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and Autonomy in Twentieth-Century Iran (British Academic Press, 1993)