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University of Toronto
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Toronto ON M5S 1C1
Canada
ABOUT
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi is Professor of Historical Studies, History, and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto-Mississauga (2004-07), and has served as President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2008-10). In addition to serving as Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001-2012), a Duke University Press journal, he was the Editor of Iran Nameh (2011-2015). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Iran Namag, a bilingual quarterly of Iranian Studies, and is the coeditor of the Iranian Studies book series published by Routledge. In addition to three edited books, he is the author of Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography (2001) and Tajaddud-i Bumi [Vernacular Modernity] (2003 and 2017). He is currently completing a manuscript that explores the discursive transformation of modern Persian political language from biopolitics to spatial governance. It traces the shift from a restorative rhetoric of the medical sciences to the constructional language of engineering.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
India
Iran
Specialties
Histgy
Occidentalism
Orientalism
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Persian (advanced)
Targhi
Urdu
Education
PhD
| 1988
| Hist
| U of Chicago
Abstracts
Sovereignty and Rights in the Age of Global Governance
