Abbas Amanat, professor of history and former chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at the newly renamed MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, has been selected as a Carnegie Scholar for 2006.
Amanat will explore "Defying Islamic Conformity: Skeptics, Heretics and Rebelling Dervishes." His research will concentrate on the study of non-conformity in the Muslim world through a historical assessment of Muslim societies, dissenters and heretics in the period between the 15th and 20th centuries in the eastern Muslim world, with particular attention on Anatolia, Asia, Iran and South Asia.
Amanat is one of 20 scholars who were chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to receive a grant of up to $100,000 to pursue specific Islam-centered research themes over the next two years.
As the consulting editor of "Encyclopaedia Iranica" for the 19th century, Amanat has been involved since 1982 in inviting scholars from the United States, Europe, Iran, Afghanistan and India to contribute entries to this major international project. His other publications include "In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Nationhood and Culture (1501-2001)," "Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896" and "Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850."
The Carnegie Corporation seeks to expand the study of Islam in the United States and to stimulate research on which to build thoughtful and original scholarship.
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