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Homa Nategh

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Homa Nategh
Born26 May 1934[1]
Died1 January 2016(2016-01-01) (aged 81)
SpouseNasser Pakdaman
Children2
Parent(s)Naseh Nategh (father)
Nosrat Rafei (mother)
Academic background
Alma materSorbonne
ThesisSeyyed Djamal-ed-Din Assad Abadi dit Afghani: Ses sejour, son action et son influence en Perse (1967)
Doctoral advisorMarcel Colombe
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Institutions

Homa Nategh (Persian: هما ناطق; May 26, 1934 – January 1, 2016)[2] was an Iranian historian, Professor of History at University of Tehran.[3][4] A specialist in the contemporary history of Iran, she resided in Paris, France, until her death.[5] She was active during Iran's 1979 revolution. After the revolution she was purged from the University of Tehran and moved to Paris, 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.[2]

Political activities

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Nategh began her political activities when she was a student in Paris,[2] having been described as "sympathetic to feminist 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.[6] She was a member of the Confederation of Iranian Students, and one of the first females join it.[2] After the Iranian Revolution, she was associated with the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas and after the split, she sided with the minority faction.[2]

References

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  1. ^ در سوگ هما ناطق
  2. ^ a b c d e f Atabaki, Touraj; Mohajer, Nasser (11 April 2016). "OBITUARY - In Memoriam Homa Nategh (1934-2016)". Iranian Studies. 49 (2): 325–326. doi:10.1080/00210862.2016.1142256.
  3. ^ "Nategh, Homa. .; Harvard Iranian Oral History Project; Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Harvard University". Ted.lib.harvard.edu. 1984-04-07. Archived from the original on 2017-12-27. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  4. ^ Shahidian, Hammed (2002). Women in Iran: Gender politics in the Islamic republic. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-313-31476-6.
  5. ^ electricpulp.com. "Remembering Homa Nategh – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
  6. ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982), Iran Between Two Revolutions, Princeton University Press, p. 502, ISBN 0-691-10134-5
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