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

  • “Layers of Veils Obscuring the Image of Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn.” HAWWA, Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World. Vol. 21. No. 4 (Dec. 2023): 358-380.
  • “The Bare Life of Iranian Bahāʾīs: The Case of Shāhrūd, 1944.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (JSAI). 54 (2023): 415-449.
  • “Writings and Utterances of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.” In The World of the Bahá’í Faith, edited by Robert H. Stockman, Routledge Worlds, 88-104. London: Routledge, 2022.
  • “Writings of Shoghi Effendi in Persian.” In The World of the Bahá’í Faith, edited by Robert H. Stockman, Routledge Worlds, 125-133. London: Routledge, 2022.
  • “Quiet Strangulation: Islamic Republic’s Treatment of Baha’is since 1991.” Tiempo Devorado. Revista de Historia Actual. No. 2 (December 2018): 156-181, available at https://revistes.uab.cat/tdevorado/article/view/v5-n2-yazdani/pdf_125
  • “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.