Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Farhad Dokhani is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. For his dissertation, he focuss on the life and work of Hadi Najmabadi, one of the leading dissident ulema in Qajar Iran pre-Constitutional Revolution. A figure of controversy, Najmabadi was one of the most influential, staunchly anti-Qajar government and anti-ulema figures of the time with some of the most well-known dissidents and Constitutional Revolutionaries and intellectuals as his students including Dehkhoda, Muhammad Tabataba'i and Muhammad Qazvini.
Some of his main interests are in post-classical and modern Islamic and Iranian intellectual history, social history, historiography, dissident and revolutionary thought and activism in the modern Middle East.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Egypt
Specialties
Modern Iranian History
Islamic Reformism And Modernism
Intellectual History Of The Iranian Constitutional
Languages
Persian (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
MA
| 2017
| History & Middle Eastern Studies
| Harvard
MA
| 2012
| Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Chicago
BA
| 2009
| History, Middle Eastern Studies, Persian, Biology
| University of Texas
Abstracts
Political or Religious?: Shaykh Hadi Najmabadi’s Shi’i Reformist Vision of Pan-Islam
