Mina Yazdani, Ph.D.

Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Toronto
  • M.A. Wilfred Laurier University
  • M.A. Landegg International University
  • B.A. Indiana University

Research & Academic Interests

  • Modern Iran
  • Islamic world

Publications

  • With Omid Ghaemmaghami, “Abu’l-Faḍā’il-i-Gulpāyigānī, an Ante Litteram Critique of Orientalism” Religion, submitted July 2022, under review.
  • “Writings and Utterances of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá,” in The World of the Bahá’í Faith. Edited by Robert H. Stockman. Routledge Worlds. London: Routledge, 2022.
  • “Writings of Shoghi Effendi in Persian.” in The World of the Bahá’í Faith. Edited by Robert H. Stockman. Routledge Worlds. London: Routledge, 2022.
  • “Layers of Veils Covering the Woman Who Unveiled,” Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Submitted August 2021.
  • “Quiet Strangulation: Islamic Republic’s Treatment of Baha’is since 1991.” Tiempo Devorado. Revista de Historia Actual. No. 2 (December 2018): 156-181.
  • “Towards a History of the Baha'i Community of Iran during the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah,” Iran Namag 2, no.1 (Spring 2017): 2-29. Persian Translation: Nigāhī bi tārīkh-i jāmiʿah-yi Bahāʾī-yi Iran dar darwān-i ḥukūmat-i Muḥammad Riḍā Shah . Translated by Pooya Movehhed. LA: AaSoo, 2019. Also, available at https://www.aasoo.org/fa/daftarha/2543.