Professor Abbas Vali (born 1949) is a Kurdish political and social theorist specialising in modern and contemporary political thought and modern Middle Eastern Politics.
Biography
Vali was born in 1949 in
Mahabad, Iran. He received his primary and secondary education in
Tabriz. He obtained a BA in Political Science from the
National University of Iran
Shahid Behesti University ( fa, دانشگاه شهید بهشتی , Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti) (formerly known as the National University of Iran) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers many programs at Bache ...
in 1973. He then moved to the UK to continue his graduate studies in modern political and social theory. He obtained an MA in Politics from the
University of Keele
Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a Public university#United Kingdom, public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University Coll ...
in 1976. He then received his PhD in Sociology from the
University of London in 1983. This was followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by the UK government. ESRC provides fundi ...
in 1984.
Abbas Vali began his academic career in 1986 in the Department of Political Theory and Government at the
University of Wales, Swansea. He was invited by the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to establish and lead a new university in
Erbil
Erbil, also called Hawler (, ar, أربيل, Arbīl; syr, ܐܲܪܒܹܝܠ, Arbel), is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It lies in the Erbil Governorate. It has an estimated population of around 1,600,000.
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in 2005. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Kurdistan before he was removed for disagreements with the KRG over the management of the university in May 2008. Professor Vali has since been teaching Modern Social and Political Theory in the Department of Sociology at
Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.
Selected works
*''Pre-Capitalist Iran: A Theoretical History'', New York: New York University Press, 1993.
*''Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism'', (ed.), Costa Mesa, Mezda Publisher, 2003.
*''Modernity and the Stateless: The Kurdish Question in Iran'', London, I.B. Tauris, 2012.
*''Kurds and the State in Iran: The Making of Kurdish Identity'', London, I.B. Tauris, 2011.
*''Kurdish Nationalism in Iran: The Forgotten Years (1947-1979)'', Istanbul, Avesta Publications, 2011.
*'The Kurds and their Others: Fragmented Identity and Fragmented Politics', ''
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Vol. XVIII, no.2, 1998''.
*'Nationalism and Kurdish Historical Writing'. ''New Perspectives on Turkey. Spring 1996, 14''.
Sources
Details of Prof. Vali's ''Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism''Prof. Abbas Vali's books in amazon.com
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References
External links
kurdishperspective WebsiteAvesta Publications Website
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1949 births
Living people
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
People from Mahabad
Iranian Kurdish people
Kurdish academics
Kurdish scholars
Kurdish historians
Kurdish sociologists
20th-century Kurdish people
21st-century Kurdish people
Shahid Beheshti University alumni