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Rajabali Kavani

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Rajabali Kavani
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Born(1964-11-30)30 November 1964
Tehran, Iran
🏳️ NationalityIranian, American
🎓 Alma materUniversity of Tehran, Leiden University
💼 Occupation
Known forIranian History

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Rajabali Kavani (Persian: رجبعلی کاوانی‎; born 1964 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American historian, author, professor, publisher and translator currently living in United States.[1] He is primarily known for his work on Armenians, Dutch and silk trade between Iran and Europe during Safavid Empire.[2][3] He is the founder of Nowruz Publishers LLC.[4]

Background and education

Rajabali was born in 1964 in Tehran in an Iranian Azerbaijani family. He completed his higher education at Darolfonun and Marvi high schools. He attained Tehran University where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in history in 1999. He received his Master’s degree from Tehran University (April 2002). The title of his MA thesis is: The Rise and Development of the Noqtavid Movement with Emphasis on the Safavid Period. He received his AMP (Advanced Masters Program) in 2003 from the Leiden University in the Netherlands and the area of his study was: Perso-Dutch Trade Relations with Emphasis on the Remaining VOC [Dutch East India Company] Documents Related to its Activities in Iran. He obtained his Phd degree from University of Tehran (March 2008). The title of his PhD thesis was: The Role and Situation of Persian Armenians from the Fall of the Safavids (1722/1736) into the Beginning of the Perso-Russian Wars (1804).

Professional and Research Experience

He was the visiting professor at Tehran University (2008). He was also Associate Researcher of the TANAP Research Group at Leiden University.[5][6]

English teacher to future PhD and MA history students at Jahade Daneshgahi Institute, an auxiliary branch of Tehran University (2004-).

He is the Co-author/translator of A Practical Dutch Grammar (2006). Available both in Dutch and Persian languages.[7][8]

He is known for Deciphering and explaining the names of famous kings etc. mentioned on three Persian rare carpets. See: Malool, Gholamali. Baharestan: A Doorway to Persian Rugs, Tehran, 2006, pp. 147-159.[9]

Listed the Memories van Overgave of the VOC Directors of Persia by researching the archives of the VOC [Dutch East India Company] in the Dutch National Archive in The Hague.

Research Fellow at the Institute for Issuance of the History of Iran, Tehran (2000).

Documentarian in a Public Notary Office in Tehran (1992-1999).

Publications

Books

Kavani, Rajabali. Dutch, Persians & Silk A Comprehensive Report (1702), Michigan, Nowruz Publishers, 2021.[10][11]

Kavani, Rajabali. Persian Version of: Dutch, Persians & Silk A Comprehensive Report (1702), Tehran, Negarestan Andishe, 1399 [2021].[12][13]

Kavani, Rajabali. Millennialist Movements (Horoufieh & Noqtavieh), (In Persain), Michigan, Nowruz Publishers, 2021.[14][15]

Kavani, Rajabali.The Director of Dutch East India Company's (VOC) Handover Report to his Successor in Iran Jacobus Hooghkamer's Words in The Original 17th Century Dutch (1702), with English Explanatory Footnotes, Michigan, Nowruz Publishers, 2021.[16]

Articles

Kavani, Ali. “Is history an easy access science?” in Pishineh, No. 3, Payiz 1382 [Fall 2003] pp. 4-5 [in Persian].[17]

Kavani, Ali. "The History of Iran in Documents of Armenians and Russians", in: Ketab-e Mah: Tarikh va Joghrafia, mahname takhasosi [Book of the Month: History and Geography, Specialized, Informative & Critical monthly book review], No. 70-71, Mordad va Sharivar 1382 Khorshidi [August-September 2003], pp. 96-139 [in Persian].[18]

Haar, Prof. Dr. Johan ter & Ali Kavani. "Iranology in the Netherlands and the Importance of Dutch Documents in Iranology", in: Ketab-e Mah: Tarikh va Joghrafia, mahname takhasosi [Book of the Month: History and Geography, Specialized, Informative & Critical monthly book review], No. 75-76, Dey va Bahman 1382 Khorshidi [January-February 2004], pp. 46-55 [in Persian]. Available through: www.ketab.ir.

Kavani, Ali. "The Archives of the Dutch East India Company (1602-1795)", in: Ketab-e Mah: Tarikh va Joghrafia, mahname takhasosi [Book of the Month: History & Geography, Specialized, Informative & Critical monthly book review], No. 75-76, Dey va Bahman 1382 Khorshidi [January-February 2004], pp. 59-65 [in Persian]. Available through: www.ketab.ir.[19]

Kavani, Ali. "Memories of an English Consul in Iran. Another Book about the Constitutional Revolution", in: Ketab-e Mah: Tarikh va Joghrafia, mahname takhasosi [Book of the Month: History & Geography, Specialized, Informative & Critical monthly book review], No. 101-103, Esfand 84 va Farvardin va Ordibehesht 1385 Khorshidi [February, March, April & May 2007], pp. 9-14 [in Persian]. Available through: www.ketab.ir.

Kavani, Ali. "A Brief Article about the Importance of the Memorandums of Transfer of the Dutch East India Company's Agents for the History of Iran", in: Tarikh [History], Bulletin of the Department of History of Tehran University, 4 (2003) 5, pp. 243-252 [in Persian].

Translations

Books

Bentley, M. (Ed.), Companion to Historiography. London [etc.], Rutledge, 1997. Persian translation in process.[20]

Wratislaw, A.C. A Consul in the East. Edinburgh/London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1924. Persian translation: Tehran, Institute for Research and Development of Human Sciences Publication, 2007.[21]

Bournoutian, George. A. Armenians and Russia 1626-1796, A Documentary Record. Costa Mesa, California, Mazda Publishers Inc., 2001. Persian translation by Kavani, Rajabali: (Tehran, Negarestan Andisheh, 1399 [2021]).

Articles

Floor, Willem. "The Persian Navy in the Persian Gulf during the Eighteenth Century", in: Iranian Studies, 20 (1987), pp. 31-53. Persian translation: Tehran, Iranology Foundation, 2005.

Meilink-Roelofsz, M.A.P. "The Structure of Trade in Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Niels Steengaard's "Carracks, Caravans and Companies." A Critical Reappraisal", in: Mare Luso-Indicum, 4 (1980), pp. 1-43. [for the Iranology foundation].

Recent Conference Presentations

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Rajabali Kavani at University of Michigan (March 2009)

Kavani, Ali. “The Treaty of 1639 and its consequences for Armenia and the Armenians.” Paper presented at the International Conference: Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 18-21 March 2009.[22]

Kavani, Ali. “The role and situation of Armenians in Iran from 1604 to 1804 with emphasize on trade”. Paper presented at the First International Armenology and Iranology Conference. University of Isfahan, Iran, 10-11 November 2008.

Awards and Honors

2008:​Summa Cum Laude Graduate (PhD)

2006:​Elected Best Student in Faculty of Literature & Human Sciences, Tehran University Graduate (MA)

2002:​Elected Top MA Student in Department of History, Tehran University


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  1. ↑ "Dr. Kavani, R.A. | University of Tehran - Academia.edu". tehran.academia.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  2. ↑ "TANAP - Research / Current Research". www.tanap.net. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  3. ↑ "TANAP - Research / Current Research". www.tanap.net. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  4. ↑ "NOWRUZ PUBLISHERS LLC - Michigan Company". michigan-company.com. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  5. ↑ Conlon <[email protected]>, Frank (2006-05-02). "H-ASIA: Towards a New Age of Partnership in Dutch East India Company Archives and Research (TANAP) WWW". H-asia.
  6. ↑ Dr. Kavani, R. A. "TANAP Extends into Iran (In English)".
  7. ↑ sindit. "Ali Kavani | A Practical Dutch Grammar". Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  8. ↑ sindit. "Farsi (Persian) edition | A Practical Dutch Grammar". Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  9. ↑ غلامعلى, ملول، (2006). بهارستان: دريچه‌اى‌ به قالى ايران. ISBN 9647679262. Search this book on
  10. ↑ Kavani, Professor Rajabali (2021-03-08). Dutch, Persians & Silk A Comprehensive Report (1702). Nowruz Publishers. Search this book on
  11. ↑ Dutch, Persians & Silk a Comprehensive Report. www.amazon.com. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-30. Search this book on
  12. ↑ "دانلود و خرید PDF کتاب ارامنه و روسیه | جورج بورنوتیان". طاقچه. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
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  14. ↑ ""راهنمای آرشیوهای کمپانی هند شرقی هلند"". پرتال جامع علوم انسانی (in فارسی). Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  15. ↑ "رجبعلی کاوانی". کتابچی (in فارسی). Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  16. ↑ The Director of Dutch East India Company's. www.amazon.com. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-30. Search this book on
  17. ↑ کاوانی, ‌رجب‌علی (1382-07-01). "تاریخ: علم سهل الوصول؟". پیشینه (in فارسی). 3 (2): 4–5. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  18. ↑ کاوانی, ‌رجب‌علی (1382-10-30). ""راهنمای آرشیوهای کمپانی هند شرقی هلند"". کتاب ماه تاریخ و جغرافیا (in فارسی). 75-76 (7): 56–59. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ↑ "رجب علی کاوانی-نورمگز". www.noormags.ir (in فارسی). Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  20. ↑ "The Director of Dutch East India Company's (VOC) Handover Report to his Successor in Iran". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  21. ↑ "Consul in the East ( England's General Consul memoire ) کنسول شرق". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  22. ↑ "Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties | U-M LSA Center for Armenian Studies (CAS)". ii.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-30.

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