Ali Reza Sheikholeslami (21 July 1941 – 9 January 2018) was Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at

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in the

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from 1990 to 2006.Ali Banuazizi (2019). Ali Reza Sheikholeslami 1941–2018. ''

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'' 53 (1): 111–112 He was born in

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and attended Bell School in

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, England (1960–62). He received a BA from

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(1967), an MA from

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(1968), an MA from the

and a PhD in Islamic studies from the

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(1975). His dissertation title was "The Structure of Central Authority in Qajar Iran 1871–1896". He was an assistant professor of political science at the

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(1975–85), senior research fellow at

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(1987–88) and a visiting senior fellow at

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(1988–90). He was appointed the inaugural Soudavar Professor at Oxford in 1990, and held the Chair until 2006. He was a visiting scholar at the

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, United Arab Emirates (2006–8). His publications include ''The Political Economy of Saudi Arabia'' (1984) and ''The Structure of Central Authority in Qajar Iran 1871–1896'' (1997). He was married to Shahrzad Vigeh Sheikholeslami.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheikholeslami, Ali Reza 1941 births 2018 deaths Cultural academics Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford Soudavar Professors of Persian Studies Academics from Tehran