Abbas Malekzadeh Milani ( Persian : عباس ملکزاده میلانی ; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of political science , and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University . He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution . In Milani's book, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran (2004, Mage Publications), he has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1,000 years ago.
12-1474: Milani (or Milāni ) is an Italian and Iranian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abbas Milani (born 1949), Iranian-American historian and author Alfredo Milani (1924–2017), Italian motorcycle racer Andrea Milani, several people Andrea Milani (footballer born 1919) , Italian footballer with Inter Milan and Palermo Andrea Milani (footballer born 1980) , Italian footballer with Ancona Andrea Milani (1948–2018), Italian mathematician Aureliano Milani (1675–1749), Italian Baroque painter Aurelio Milani (1934–2014), Italian footballer Cesare Milani (1905–1956), Italian Olympic rower Fadhil al-Milani (born 1944), Iraqi-Iranian jurist and professor Gilberto Milani (1932–2021), Italian motorcycle racer Giulio Cesare Milani (c. 1621–1678), Italian Baroque painter Laura Milani (born 1984), Italian rower Leyla Milani (born 1982), Canadian model, actress, TV host, and fashion designer Lorenzo Milani (1923–1967), Italian Roman Catholic priest Marta Milani (born 1987), Italian sprint athlete Mino Milani (1928–2022), Italian writer, cartoonist, journalist and historian Mohammad Hadi al-Milani (1895–1975) Iraqi-Iranian senior jurist Oscar Milani (born 1946), Argentine harpsichordist Tahmineh Milani (born 1960), Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer See also [ edit ] 4701 Milani ,
24-487: A United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing amidst 2009 Iranian presidential election protests , and called for imposing "multilateral and crippling sanctions " on Iranians. He also advised the congressmen not to support the military invasion of Iran because it would not politically contribute to the American goal of regime change . Shortly afterward, Iranian prosecutors in the post-election trials built
36-466: A case against the defendants by connecting them to Milani, mentioning him by name in the official indictment. Hamid Dabashi criticized Milani for throwing monkey wrenches at Green Movement of Iran by supporting foreign intervention instead of grassroots democracy in Iran. Milani separated from his first wife, Fereshteh Davaran, in 1988. He lives on Stanford campus with his second wife, Jean Nyland, who
48-526: A main-belt asteroid [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Milani . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milani&oldid=1259811844 " Categories : Surnames Italian toponymic surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
60-471: A new main campus was built in Evin, a suburb in the north of Tehran. By 1978 other faculties became active i.e.the faculties of Literature and Human Sciences, Basic Sciences, Law, Earth Sciences, Statistics and Informatics and Education and Psychology. In an academic reform in 1986, the medical schools were separated from the main universities and became Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences working under
72-644: Is chair of Notre Dame de Namur's psychology department. Shahid Beheshti University Shahid Beheshti University ( SBU ) ( Persian : دانشگاه شهید بهشتی , romanized : Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti ), originally founded as the Melli University (National University of Iran) ( Persian : دانشگاه ملی , romanized : Dāneshgāh-e Melli ), is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers programs at Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. levels. Shahid Behesti University
84-558: Is currently the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University. Milani embraced Marxism–Leninism during his youth and was a member of a Maoist underground cell that was uncovered by Iranian security forces in 1975. He was subsequently jailed at Evin Prison , and became disillusioned with revolutionary politics. His eventual ideology has been described as neoconservative . In July 2009, Milani appeared in
96-513: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Abbas Milani Milani was born in Iran to a prosperous family and was sent to California when he was sixteen, graduating from Oakland Technical High School in 1966 after only one year of studies. Milani earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970; and his Doctor of Philosophy in political science from
108-584: The University of Hawaiʻi in 1974. With his then-girlfriend Fereshteh, Milani returned to Iran to serve as an assistant professor of political science at the National University of Iran from 1975 to 1977. He lectured on Marxist themes veiled in metaphor but was jailed for two years as a political prisoner for "activities against the government". He was a research fellow at the Iranian Center for Social Research from 1977 to 1978. He
120-636: Was also an assistant professor of law and political science at the University of Tehran and a member of the board of directors of Tehran University's Center for International Studies from 1979 to 1986, but after the Iranian Revolution he was not allowed to publish or teach. He left Iran in 1986 during the time of the Iran–Iraq War for the United States , and his son Hamid and his wife Fereshteh followed. Returning to California, Milani
132-523: Was appointed professor of History and Political Science as well as chair of the department at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont , California. He served as a research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Milani became a Hoover Institution research fellow in 2001 and left Notre Dame de Namur for Stanford University in 2002. He
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#1732783799035144-540: Was founded in 1959 by Ali Sheikholislam . The university was planned to be devoted to graduate studies. At its opening, it consisted of two schools: Architecture and Urban Planning, and Banking and Economics, with 174 students. Soon the School of Literature and Foreign Languages began in downtown Tehran. The first graduate academic degree program was the Master's course in the School of Architecture, launched in 1961. In 1962,
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