Rudolph P. Matthee, best known as Rudi Matthee (born 1953), is John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History in the History Department at the
University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 mas ...
, teaching
Middle East
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ern history and specializing in the history of early modern
Iran
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.
He received his PhD in 1991 from the
University of California
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.
Matthee is a member of the
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
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, for which he also functioned as president twice in 2003-2005 and 2009–2011.
He is the author of numerous books and articles on
Safavid
Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...
and
Qajar Iran
Qajar Iran (), also referred to as Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, '. Sublime State of Persia, officially the Sublime State of Iran ( fa, دولت علیّه ایران ') and also known then as the Guarded Domains of Iran ( fa, ممالک م ...
.
Selected publications
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* (Editor, with Beth Baron) ''Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie'', Mazda Publishers (Costa Mesa, CA), 2000.
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* (Editor, with Nikki R. Keddie) ''Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics'', University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), 2002.
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* (Editor) ''The Safavid World '', Routledge, 2021.
Awards
Matthee has been awarded numerous prizes for his oeuvre:
* Albert Hourani Book prize (2006). Awarded by the Middle East Association of North America
* Saidi Sirjani Award (2004-2005). Awarded by the International Society for Iranian Studies
* British-Kuwaiti Friendship Book Prize (2012)
* Best foreign-language book on Iran (twice, awarded by the Iranian Ministry of Culture)
References
External links
Curriculum Vitae of Rudolph (Rudi) P. Matthee
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Living people
1953 births
University of Delaware faculty
University of California alumni
Iranologists
20th-century American historians
21st-century American historians
Middle Eastern studies scholars
Historians of Iran