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Ervand Abrahamian (Armenian: Երվանդ Աբրահամյան; Persian: یرواند آبراهامیان; born 1940) is a historian of Middle Eastern and particularly Iranian history.An Armenian born in Iran and raised in England he received his M.A. at Oxford University and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He teaches at the City University of New York (CUNY) where he is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center.