Mojtaba Ebrahimian

Mojtaba Ebrahimian is a scholar of Modern Middle Eastern Intellectual History and Iranian Studies. His first book, Iran's Encounter with Europe, 1800-1840: An Intellectual History explores the extent of the Iranian knowledge of European civilization and European imperialism in Asia in the early nineteenth century. 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.