Prof Ali Ansari

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3027

Email

aa51@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Office hours

On research leave Semester 1

 

Research areas

Development of the Iranian state; Ideology, myth and nation building; Social and Intellectual history; Iran and the West.

PhD supervision

• Kasra Aarabi
• Jan-Willem Gray
• Hannah Hassani
• Francis Lyon
• Sami Risk

Selected publications

• The shadow of Mosaddeq: history, memory and the construction of a myth

  Ansari, A. M., 1 Jan 2025, Political, social and cultural history of modern Iran: essays in honour of Ervand Abrahamian. Chehabi, H. E. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 229-253 25 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Military reform in imperial Iran

  Ansari, A. M., 30 Dec 2024, Unconquered states: non-European powers in the imperial age. Chehabi, H. E. & Motadel, D. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 147-168 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran Hussein Banai

  Ansari, A. M., 12 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. 55, 2, p. 401-403 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• The Butler Report on the relinquishment of Abadan: an unnecessary crisis?

  Ansari, A. M., 1 Dec 2022, Britain and the Abadan Crisis, 1950-51. Bennet, G. & Smith, R. (eds.). London: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, p. 3-17 15 p. (Documents from the British Archives; no. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A mirror for princes? British orientalists and the Persian question

  Ansari, A. M., 25 Feb 2021, Political advice: past, present and future. Kidd, C. & Rose, J. (eds.). London: I.B. Tauris, p. 117-130 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  A royal romance: the cult of Cyrus the Great in modern Iran

  Ansari, A., Jul 2021, In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 31, 3, p. 405 - 419 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A failure of imagination? Britain, 'the narrative of liberalisation' and the fall of the Shah

  Ansari, A., 25 Oct 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and Agriculture. Joffé, G. & Schofield, R. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Taylor and Francis, p. 130-152 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Scotland, Britain, and the Union

  Ansari, A. M., 1 Jan 2020, The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics. Oxford University Press, p. 689-704 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Britain, Iran and the Idea of Reform

  Ansari, A. M., Feb 2019, Iran, islam and Democracy: the politics of managing change. London: Gingko Library, p. 543-565 23 p. Part VII

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Iran, Islam and Democracy 3rd Edition

  Ansari, A. M., Feb 2019, London: Gingko Library. 640 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

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