Homa Nategh (; May 26, 1934 – January 1, 2016) was an Iranian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, Professor of History at

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

. A specialist in the contemporary

history of Iran The history of Iran (also known as Name of Iran, Persia) is intertwined with Greater Iran, which is a socio-cultural region encompassing all of the areas that have witnessed significant settlement or influence exerted by the Iranian peoples and ...

, she resided in

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, France, until her death. She was active during Iran's 1979 revolution. After the revolution she was purged from the

and moved to

, where she was appointed as professor of the Iranian Studies at the Sorbonne. In Sorbonne she published several articles on Iranian history in Qajar period.

Political activities

Nategh began her political activities when she was a student in Paris, having been described as "sympathetic to

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

causes and to the Ieft wing of the National Front". Ironically enough, however, during the 1979 revolution in Iran she joined voices with fundamentalist Islamists and called for all women to wear Islamic hijab. She was a member of the Confederation of Iranian Students, and one of the first females join it. After the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution (, ), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (, ) was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Impe ...

, she was associated with the

Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas The Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (OIPFG; ), simply known as Fadaiyan-e-Khalq () was an underground Marxist–Leninist guerrilla organization in Iran. The OIPFG was one of the most important and influential armed groups dur ...

and after the split, she sided with the minority faction.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nategh, Homa 1934 births 2016 deaths People from Urmia 20th-century Iranian historians Iranian women historians Academic staff of the University of Tehran Academic staff of the University of Paris Iranian expatriate academics Iranian expatriates in France French people of Azerbaijani descent National Front (Iran) student activists Iranian Writers Association members Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas members