# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abbas-milani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:36:52.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abbas-milani"
name: "Abbas Milani"
slug: "abbas-milani"
description: "Abbas Malekzadeh Milani is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of political science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In Milani's book, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran, he has found evidence that Persian modernism dates back to more than 1,000 years ago."
tagline: "Iranian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Milani_Abbas_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump