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Nov 17, 1942 Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran 81 years old
Iranian academic
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About Homa Katouzian
- Homa Katouzian (Persian: ?????? ????????; born Homayoun Katouzian on 17 November 1942 in Tehran) is an economist, historian, political scientist and literary critic, with a special interest in Iranian studies.[1] Katouzian's formal academic training was in economics and the social sciences but he concurrently continued his studies of Persian history and literature at a professional academic level.
- He began studying the life and works of the modern Persian writer, Sadeq Hedayat, and that of the Prime Minister of Iran in the early 1950s, Mohammad Mosaddeq, while still a faculty member in the department of economics at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
- Having taught economics at universities in Britain and other countries for eighteen years, he took voluntary retirement in 1986 to devote his entire time to Iranian studies.
- In recent years, he has been teaching and writing on classical Persian literature, in particular the 13th-century poet and writer, Sa‘di.
- Currently based at the University of Oxford, Katouzian is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and the Iran HeritageResearch Fellow at St.
- Antony's College, where he edited the bimonthly Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies for thirteen years.
- He is editor, International Journal of Persian Literature, senior editor, Iran Namag, a journal of Iranian studies, and co-editor of Routledge, Iranian studies book series.
- He is also a former member of the Editorial Board of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and Comparative Economic Studies.
