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

By appointment

 

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
• Sami Risk
• Bita Naghashian
• Brenden Benjamin
• Francis Lyon
• Eilidh Wright
• Hannah Hassani

Selected publications

• 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. First View, p. 1-2 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

• Modern Iran since 1797: reform and Revolution 3rd Edition

  Ansari, A. M., 10 Apr 2019, London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 462 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The United States, Iran, and the Politics of the JCPOA

  Ansari, A. M., Feb 2019, Iran, Islam and Democracy: the politics of Managing Change. London: Gingko Library, p. 497-542 46 p. Part VI

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

 

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