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University of Connecticut

History Political Science Modern History Cultural History History of Religion History of History Politics and History

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Fakhreddin Azimi is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. He earned his BA in Political Science from the School of Law and Political Science at Tehran University, achieving the highest grade in the humanities in the nationwide university entrance exam and editing a student journal to which top students and prominent scholars contributed. Azimi pursued his M.Sc. in Politics with special reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and obtained his D.Phil. from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, where he worked with scholars such as Albert Hourani. As a scholar of the history and culture of modern Iran and the Middle East, he maintains wider interests in the Islamicate and Persianate worlds, the epistemology of history, and the history of social science disciplines. His areas of specialty encompass the modern Middle East, Islam, and the socio-political and cultural history of modern Iran. Current research interests include religion, secularity, and the state in modern Iran; modes of domination and legitimation; power, the political, and civic life.