Touraj Atabaki

{{Short description|Iranian academic (born 1950)}}

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| name = Touraj Atabaki

| caption = Touraj Atabaki, Iranian scholar

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|02|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tehran, Iran

| alma_mater = {{plainlist|

• National University of Iran
• University of London
• Utrecht University

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| discipline = Social History

| workplaces = {{plainlist|

• Utrecht University
• International Institute of Social History
• University of Amsterdam
• Leiden University

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| thesis_title = Ethnicity and Autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan: the Autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946

| thesis_url = http://hoogleraren.leidenuniv.nl/id/3364

| thesis_year = 1991

| doctoral_advisor = Ervand Abrahamian

| citizenship = Iranian–Dutch

| website = {{url|atabaki.nl}}

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Touraj Atabaki ({{langx|fa|تورج اتابکی}}, born February 23, 1950) is Emeritus Professor by special appointment of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Leiden University.{{cite web |title=Turaj Atabaki |url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/turaj-atabaki/ |website=Leiden University |accessdate=17 February 2020}} He was the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.{{citation|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2284600019/atabaki-touraj-1950.html|title=Atabaki, Touraj 1950-|work=Contemporary Authors|accessdate=2017-11-02}} He also held the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the School of Middle East Studies of Leiden University,{{citation|url=http://hoogleraren.leidenuniv.nl/id/3364|title=Touraj Atabaki|work=Leidse hoogleraren vanaf 1575|publisher=Leiden University|accessdate=2017-11-07}} and is past president of the Association for Iranian Studies{{citation|url=http://associationforiranianstudies.org/about/officers/2017|title=2017 Officers|publisher=Association for Iranian Studies|accessdate=2017-11-07}} and the European Society for Central Asian Studies.

Atabaki earned his doctorate from Utrecht University in 1991 with a dissertation titled Ethnicity and autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan: the autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946.