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Mojtaba Ebrahimian

  • Adjunct Lecturer
Academic Division: History & Society
CV
Mojtaba Ebrahimian is a scholar of Modern Middle Eastern Intellectual History and Iranian Studies. His first book, Reimagining Europe: Persian Travel Writing and Visions of Progress in Early Nineteenth-Century Iran examines the role of early nineteenth-century Persian travelogues to Europe in shaping Iranian perceptions of Europe and its progress. It argues that through both the experience of travel and the act of writing about Europe, Iranian authors developed a distinctively Iranian and Islamic conceptualization of progress. He has published or has under review several articles on Persian literature, Iranian cinema, and modern Iranian history. He has taught courses on Middle Eastern History, Islamic History, Islamic Political Thought, Middle Eastern Humanities, and Persian Language and Literature at the University of Arizona, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard University.

Academic Degrees

  • Ph D, University of Arizona
  • MA, University of Arizona
  • MA, Shahid Beheshti University
  • BA, University of Isfahan

Academic Interest / Expertise

Modern Middle Eastern History; Iranian History; Iranian Cinema; Travel Writing Studies

Courses

  • Degree Courses 2025

    • HSS 2038 MODERN MIDDLE EAST

  • Degree Courses 2024

    • HSS 2038 MODERN MIDDLE EAST

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Ebrahimian, M. (2023). “ʻAbd al-Rahim Talebof’s Promotion of Nationality and National Sociopolitical Reform in Kitab-i Aḥmad (1890–1894).”. Vol: 8, Issue: September 2023, Page: 41-60. International Journal of Persian Literature.
  • Ebrahimian, M. (2023). The European other, the Indo-Iranian self and the discourse of wonder in the earliest Persian travelogues of Europe. Studies in Travel Writing. Vol: 26, Issue: 1, Page: 34-52. Informa UK Limited. link
  • Ebrahimian, M. (2021). "Vaqaye‘-e Ettefaqiyeh (1851–1861) and the Education of the Iranian Nation in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century". Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies. Vol: 59, Issue: 1, Page: 130-146. Informa UK Limited. link

Book Chapters

  • Ebrahimian, M. (2023). One Thousand Years of Persian Travel Writing and Siyahatnameh-Ye Ebrahim Beyg (1895) as Safarnameh: Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature. Page: 45-67. Routledge. link