Homa Katouzian
Homa Katouzian (
Persian: همايون کاتوزیان; born
Homayoun Katouzian on 17 November 1942) is an economist, historian, sociologist and
literary critic, with a special interest in
Iranian studies. Katouzian's formal academic training was in
economics and the
social sciences but he concurrently continued his studies of
Persian history and literature at a professional academic level. He began studying the life and works of the modern Persian writer,
Sadeq Hedayat, and that of the
Prime Minister of Iran in the early 1950s,
Mohammad Mosaddeq, while still a faculty member in the department of economics at the
University of Kent at Canterbury. Having taught
economics at universities in
Britain and other countries for eighteen years, he took voluntary retirement in 1986 to devote his entire time to
Iranian studies. In recent years, he has been teaching and writing on
classical Persian literature, in particular the 13th-century poet and writer,
Sa‘di. Currently based at the
University of Oxford, Katouzian is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and the Roshan Institute Academic Visitor in Iranian Studies at
St. Antony's College, where for thirteen years he edited the bimonthly
''Iranian Studies'', the journal of the Association for Iranian Studies. He is editor of the ''International Journal of Persian Literature'', and co-editor of Routledge's Iranian studies book series. He is also a former member of the editorial board of ''
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East'' and ''Comparative Economic Studies''.
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