Beatrice Forbes Manz

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)

See also

• John E. Woods

References

1. 1 2 "Beatrice Manz, chair". Tufts University. Retrieved 14 September 2014. 
2. ↑ Fragner, Bert (2000). "La Civiltà Timuride Come Fenomeno Internationale by Michele Bernardini". Iranian Studies 33 (3/4). 
3. ↑ Melville, Charles (April 2010). "Beatrice Forbes Manz, Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran". Speculum 85 (2): 429–30. doi:10.1017/S0038713410000497. 
4. ↑ "The MHS Welcomes 13 New Fellows". Massachusetts Historical Society. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2014. 
5. ↑ "Annual newsletter, 2013" (PDF). American Institute of Iranian Studies. Retrieved 17 September 2014. 
6. ↑ "Dr. Anne Forbes, 80, Endocrinology Pioneer". The New York Times. 29 February 1992. Retrieved 17 September 2014. 
7. ↑ Irwin, Robert (12 January 1990). "Conqueror at large". The Times Literary Supplement: 28.  |access-date= requires |url= (help)
8. ↑ "http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/awards/houshang-pourshariati-book.html#Previous". Middle East Studies Association. Retrieved 17 September 2014.  External link in |title= (help)