Elton L. Daniel is a historian and

Iranologist Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

. He received his doctorate from

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in 1978, and from 1981-2011 he was a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the

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. He retired in 2011. Daniel is the director of the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

and the editor-in-chief of ''Encyclopaedia Iranica''. He has conducted research and traveled extensively in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

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, Syria,

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, France, and the United Kingdom. He has published many books and articles pertaining to the history of Iran, including a revised translation of

Al-Ghazali Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111; ), full name (), and known in Persian-speaking countries as Imam Muhammad-i Ghazali (Persian: امام محمد غزالی) or in Medieval Europe by the Latinized as Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian poly ...

's ''Alchemy of Happiness''.

Works

He published several books as well as numerous article in the

Encyclopaedia Iranica An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into article ...

. His published monographs include the following: * ''The Political and Social History of Khurasan under Abbasid Rule, 747-820'', Bibliotheca Islamica (Minneapolis, MN), 1979. * ''The History of Iran'', Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2001. * ''A Shi’ite Pilgrimage to Mecca (1885-1886)'', University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1990 (as editor and translator, with Hafez Farmayan). * ''Society and Culture in Qajar Iran: Studies in Honor of Hafez Farmayan'', Mazda Publishers (Costa Mesa, CA), 2002 (as editor). * ''Culture and Customs of Iran'', Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2006 (with Ali Akbar Mahdi).

References

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