Beatrice Forbes Manz is an American historian of the Middle East and Central Asia who specializes in nomads and the Timurid dynasty. She currently works as a professor of history at Tufts University.[1] Her 1989 book The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane is considered one of the most authoritative accounts of the career of the conqueror Timur.[2][3]
She received a bachelor's from Harvard University in 1970 and a master's in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Michigan in 1974, then returned to Harvard for a doctorate in Inner Asian and Altaic studies which she received in 1983.[1] She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society[4] and, as of 2014, president of the American Institute of Iranian Studies.[5]
She is the child of William H. Forbes and the well-known endocrinologist Anne Pappenheimer Forbes.[6]
Her publications include:
- The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Cambridge University Press, 1989)[7]
- Power Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- Winner of the Middle East Studies Association's 2007 Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award[8]
- "Tamerlane's Career and its Uses," Journal of World History 13.1 (2002)
- "Temür and the Problem of a Conqueror's Legacy," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (April 1998)
- "Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military," in Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran, eds., Mongols, Turks, and Others: Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World (Brill, 2005)
Beatrice Manz speaks English, French, German, Russian, Persian, Turkish, and Arabic.
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References
- 1 2 "Beatrice Manz, chair". Tufts University. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ↑ Fragner, Bert (2000). "La Civiltà Timuride Come Fenomeno Internationale by Michele Bernardini". Iranian Studies. 33 (3/4). JSTOR 4311399.
- ↑ Melville, Charles (April 2010). "Beatrice Forbes Manz, Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran". Speculum. 85 (2): 429–30. doi:10.1017/S0038713410000497.
- ↑ "The MHS Welcomes 13 New Fellows". Massachusetts Historical Society. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ↑ "Annual newsletter, 2013" (PDF). American Institute of Iranian Studies. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ↑ "Dr. Anne Forbes, 80, Endocrinology Pioneer". The New York Times. 29 February 1992. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ↑ Irwin, Robert (12 January 1990). "Conqueror at large". The Times Literary Supplement: 28.
- ↑ "Middle East Studies Association". Middle East Studies Association. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2014.