Ali Anooshahr
Ali Anooshahr
Assistant Professor

E: aanooshahr@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-1389
O: 3220 SSH
Academic Biography
Ali Anooshahr teaches World History as well as comparative pre-modern Islamic history at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin (1994), and received his MA and PhD in Islamic History from the University of California, Los Angeles (2005). He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica College, California State University Los Angeles, California State University San Marcos, and Saint Xavier University, Chicago.


Research Interests
Comparative Islamic Empires, Arabic/Persian/Turkic historiography, politics and masculinities


Selected Publications

The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam (forthcoming, Routledge 2008).

"The King who would be Man: the Gender Roles of the Warrior King in Early Mughal History", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Vol. 18 Issue 03, July 2008, [pp 327-340].

“Mughal historians and the memory of the Islamic conquest of India” Indian Economic and Social History Review 2006 [275-300]

“‘Utbi and the Ghaznavids at the Foot of the Mountain” Iranian Studies 2005 [271-292]



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