Reza Sheikholeslami

Ali Reza Sheikholeslami (21 July 1941 – 9 January 2018)[1] was Masoumeh and Fereydoon Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies at Wadham College in the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2006. He received a BA from Columbia University, an MA from Northwestern University, an MA from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of California. Before becoming Soudavar Professor at Oxford, he served as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington 1975–85, as senior research fellow at Harvard University 1985-88 and as visiting senior fellow at St Antony's College at Oxford 1988–90. His publications include "The Political Economy of Saudi-Arabia", and "The Structure of Central Authority in Qajar Iran 1871-1896."