Elton L. Daniel

He received his doctorate from UT Austin in 1978, and from 1981-2011 he was a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of Hawaii.[1] He retired in 2011.[2] Elton Daniel is now the Director of the Ehsan Yarshater Center For Iranian Studies at Columbia University and the Editor-In-Chief of Encyclopaedia Iranica. He has conducted research and traveled extensively in Iran, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, France, and the United Kingdom.

Elton L. Daniel is a historian and Iranologist.

He has published many books and articles pertaining to the history of Iran, including a revised translation of Al-Ghazali's Alchemy of Happiness.

Works

He published several books as well as numerous article in the Encyclopaedia Iranica. His published monographs include the following:

  • The Political and Social History of Khurasan under Abbasid Rule, 747-820, Bibliotheca Islamica (Minneapolis, MN), 1979.
  • The History of Iran, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2001.
  • A Shi’ite Pilgrimage to Mecca (1885-1886), University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1990 (as editor and translator, with Hafez Farmayan).
  • Society and Culture in Qajar Iran: Studies in Honor of Hafez Farmayan, Mazda Publishers (Costa Mesa, CA), 2002 (as editor).
  • Culture and Customs of Iran, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2006 (with Ali Akbar Mahdi).[3]

References
  1. "Elton L. Daniel | Yarshater Center".
  2. "Elton L. Daniel Home Page". www2.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  3. "Daniel, Elton L. | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
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