Abbas Amanat (Persian: عباس امانت;[1] born November 14, 1947) is an Iranian-born American historian, scholar,[2] author, editor, and university professor.

dissertation: "Emergence and Early Development of the Babi Movement, 1844–1850", successfully defended in Hilary 1981, was A.K.S.

[citation needed] Amanat began teaching first in the Program of Religious Studies at SUNY Stony Brook in 1982 and soon after was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of History, Yale University in the fall of 1983.

[6] He specializes in Qajar Iran as well as in the history of messianic and apocalyptic movements in the Islamic world.

He also edited and co-edited several volumes including most recently with Assef Ashraf, The Persianate World: Rethinking A Shared Space, Leiden and Boston, Brill Publishers, 2018 and with Farzin Vejdani, Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in Historical Perspective New York, Palgrave MacMillan, January 2012.