Professor Abbas Vali (born 1949) is a Kurdish political and social theorist specialising in modern and contemporary political thought and modern Middle Eastern Politics.
Biography
Vali was born in 1949 in
Mahabad
Mahabad ( fa, مهاباد, ku, مەهاباد, translit=Mehabad), also Romanized as Mihābād and Muhābād and formerly known as Savojbolagh, is a city and capital of Mahabad County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its ...
, Iran. He received his primary and secondary education in
Tabriz
Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Aze ...
. He obtained a BA in Political Science from the
National University of Iran in 1973. He then moved to the UK to continue his graduate studies in modern political and social theory. He obtained an MA in Politics from the
University of Keele in 1976. He then received his PhD in Sociology from the
University of London
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in 1983. This was followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council in 1984.
Abbas Vali began his academic career in 1986 in the Department of Political Theory and Government at the
University of Wales
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, Swansea. He was invited by the
Kurdistan Regional Government
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(KRG) to establish and lead a new university in
Erbil in 2005. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Kurdistan before he was removed for disagreements with the KRG over the management of the university in May 2008. Professor Vali has since been teaching Modern Social and Political Theory in the Department of Sociology at
Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and tw ...
in Istanbul.
Selected works
*''Pre-Capitalist Iran: A Theoretical History'', New York: New York University Press, 1993.
*''Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism'', (ed.), Costa Mesa, Mezda Publisher, 2003.
*''Modernity and the Stateless: The Kurdish Question in Iran'', London, I.B. Tauris, 2012.
*''Kurds and the State in Iran: The Making of Kurdish Identity'', London, I.B. Tauris, 2011.
*''Kurdish Nationalism in Iran: The Forgotten Years (1947-1979)'', Istanbul, Avesta Publications, 2011.
*'The Kurds and their Others: Fragmented Identity and Fragmented Politics', ''
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
''Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Comparative Studies on Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. It provides a "critical and comparative analyses of the hist ...
. Vol. XVIII, no.2, 1998''.
*'Nationalism and Kurdish Historical Writing'. ''New Perspectives on Turkey. Spring 1996, 14''.
Sources
Details of Prof. Vali's ''Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism''Prof. Abbas Vali's books in amazon.com
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References
External links
kurdishperspective WebsiteAvesta Publications Website
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1949 births
Living people
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
People from Mahabad
Iranian Kurdish people
Kurdish academics
Kurdish scholars
Kurdish historians
Kurdish sociologists
20th-century Kurdish people
21st-century Kurdish people
Shahid Beheshti University alumni