Mohammad Gholi Majd

Mohammad Gholi Majd (Persian: محمدقلی مجد‎), also known as Mohammad Gholi Madjd, is an agricultural economist and a historian. He has contributed to the fields of land tenure and distribution, agrarian policy, and the history of modern Iran. Majd has used the American diplomatic archives pertaining to Iran to provide a history of the under-studied period of 1914 to 1941. In addition, he is the author of a trilogy on Iran's three historical famines: The Great Famine of 1869-1873, the World War I famine of 1917-1919, and the World War II famine and typhus epidemic of 1942-1944, major calamities that, in the words of one reviewer, have been "often overlooked" and "largely forgotten",[2] or, as indicated by another reviewer, entirely relegated to oblivion.[3]

Mohammad Gholi Majd
Born1946 (age 74–75)
Tehran, Iran[1]
Academic background
Alma materCornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
ThesisPolicies Concerning Sugar Production in Iran (1978)
Academic work
Main interestsHistory of Iran

Majd obtained an MA in political economy from University of Saint Andrews, a post graduate diploma in economic development from University of Manchester, and an MA in agricultural economics also from University of Manchester. He earned a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell University in 1978. In 2002, the Department of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University was renamed the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Majd taught economics at several American universities prior to concentrating on Iranian studies. He was a lecturer at the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, from 1992 to 1998, and an adjunct professor at Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, from 1992 to 1997.[1]

Criticisms

Certain reviewers have criticised Majd's research. Ervand Abrahamian has described claims by Majd that the Persian famine of 1917-1919 was a genocide as being a "wild accusation" and that the figures put forward by Majd were an "exaggerated discussion".[4] Cormac Ó Gráda equally describes the claim of genocide as "not possible to take literally".[5] The authors Alidad Mafinezam and Aria Mehrabi in their work Iran and Its Place Among Nations have stated that Majd's work suffers from methodological defects, including a lack of triangulation.[6]

Bibliography

Books
  • Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and the Ulama in Iran. University Press of Florida. 2000.[R 1][R 2][R 3][R 4]
  • Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921–1941. University Press of Florida. 2001.[R 5][R 6][R 7][R 8][R 9][R 10]
  • The Great American Plunder of Persia's Antiquities, 1925–1941. University Press of America. 2003.[R 11][R 12]
  • Persia in World War I and Its Conquest by Great Britain. University Press of America. 2003.[R 13][R 14]
  • The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917–1919. University Press of America. 2003.[R 15][R 16] *The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran, 1917-1919, 2nd Edition. University Press of America. 2013.
  • Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest. University Press of America. 2006.[R 17][R 18]
  • Oil and the Killing of the American Consul in Tehran. University Press of America. 2006.</ref>[R 19]
  • From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919–1930. University Press of America. 2008.[R 20][R 21]
  • August 1941: The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs. University Press of America. 2012.[R 22][R 23]
  • Iran Under Allied Occupation in World War II: The Bridge to Victory & a Land of Famine. University Press of America. 2016.[R 24]
  • A Victorian Holocaust: Iran in the Great Famine of 1869–1873. Hamilton Books. 2017.</ref>[R 25]

Other published works
  • Madjd, Mohammad Gholi (1983). "Land Reform and Agricultural Policy in Iran, 1962–78". Research Bulletin. Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.184108. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Majd, Mohammad G. (1987). "Land Reform Policies in Iran". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 69 (4): 843–848. doi:10.2307/1242196. JSTOR 1242196.
  • Majd, M. G. (1989). "Land Reform Policies in Iran: Reply". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 71 (4): 1050–1053. doi:10.2307/1242683. JSTOR 1242683.
  • Majd, M.G. (1989). "The Oil Boom and Agricultural Development: A Reconsideration of Agricultural Policy in Iran". Journal of Energy and Development. 14 (1): 125–140. JSTOR 24807861.
  • Majd, M.G. (1991). "The Oil Boom and Structural Transformation in the Sugar Industry of Iran". Journal of Rural Studies. 7 (4): 397–409. doi:10.1016/0743-0167(91)90004-C.
  • Majd, M.G. (1991). "The Political Economy of Land Reform in Iran". Land Use Policy. 8 (1): 69–76. doi:10.1016/0264-8377(91)90055-N.
  • Majd, M.G. (1992). "On the Relationship between Land Reform and Rural-Urban Migration in Iran, 1966–1976". Middle East Journal. 46 (3): 123–153.
  • Majd, Mohammad Gholi (1992). "The Statistics and Politics of Land Reform in Iran: A Comment". Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 47 (4): 687–92. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.274811.
  • Majd, M.G.; Nowshirvani, V.F. (1993). "Land reform in Iran Revisited: New evidence on the Results of Land Reform in Nine Provinces". Journal of Peasant Studies. 20 (3): 442–458. doi:10.1080/03066159308438517.
  • Majd, Mohammad Gholi (2000). "Small Landowners and Land Distribution in Iran, 1962–71". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 32 (1): 123–153. doi:10.1017/S0020743800021073. JSTOR 259538. S2CID 162294229.
  • Majd, Mohammad Gholi (2012). "A Response to Pezhmann Dailami's Review of "From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919-1930"". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 44 (1): 209–210. doi:10.1017/S0020743811001565. JSTOR 41475012. S2CID 162968911.
  • Majd, Mohammad Gholi (2021). "The Three Famines and the Makings of A Malthusian Catastrophe in Iran, 1869-1944". Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History. 12 (27): 75–105. doi:10.22034/JIIPH.2021.44132.2161.

References
  1. Fazeli, Mahmoud, translated by Jairan Gahan, "Persia in World War I and Its Conquest by Great Britain", Iranian Oral History, retrieved 1 December 2019
  2. Hecht, Clara (2018). "Recent Publications. A Victotian Holocaust: Iran in The Great Famine of 1869-1873". Middle East Journal. 72 (2): 353.
  3. Walsh, Pat (2010). "Who Remembers the Persians...? Book Review. The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919". Irish Foreign Affairs. 3 (3): 4–7.
  4. Floor, Willem (2005). "Review of The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919". Iranian Studies. 38 (1): 192–196. ISSN 0021-0862. JSTOR 4311715.
  5. Gráda, Cormac Ó (2009). Famine: A Short History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12237-3.
  6. Mafinezam, Alidad; Mehrabi, Aria (2008). Iran and Its Place Among Nations. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-99926-1.

Reviews of works
  1. Floor, Willem (2003). "Reviewed Work: Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and Ulama in Iran by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Iranian Studies. 36 (2): 394–296. JSTOR 4311538.
  2. Afshin, Marashi (2002). "Reviewed Work: Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and the Ulama in Iran by Mohammad Gholi Majd". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 34 (1): 154–156. doi:10.1017/S0020743802331064. JSTOR 3880183. S2CID 163789613.
  3. Wilson, Rodney (2001). "Book Reviews: Resistance to the Shah: Landowners and the Ulama in Iran by Mohammad Gholi Majd". The Journal of Development Studies. 37 (4): 187–188. doi:10.1080/00220380412331322091. S2CID 216140552.
  4. Cronin, Stephanie (2001). "Modernity, Power and Islam in Iran: Reflections on Some Recent Literature: Review Article". Middle Eastern Studies. 37 (4): 237–255. doi:10.1080/714004417. JSTOR 4284203. S2CID 144106987.
  5. Bonakdarian, Mansour (2002). "Reviewed Work: Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921–1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 34 (4): 688–690. doi:10.2307/4054714. JSTOR 4054714.
  6. Luft, Paul (2004). "Reviewed Work: Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921–1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 67 (1): 93–95. doi:10.1017/S0041977X0424006X. JSTOR 4145763. S2CID 162289186.
  7. Cronin, Stephanie (2002). "Reviewed Work: Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921–1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 34 (4): 758–761. JSTOR 3879711.
  8. Richard, Yann (2006). "Reviewed Work: Great Britain and Reza Shah. The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Iranian Studies. 39 (2): 278–280. JSTOR 4311820.
  9. Zirinsky, Michael P. (2002). "Reviewed Work: Great Britain & Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Middle East Journal. 56 (2): 339–340. JSTOR 4329764.
  10. Martin, Vanessa (2002). "Reviewed Work: Great Britain and Reza Shah: The Plunder of Iran, 1921-1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Middle Eastern Studies. 38 (4): 339–340. JSTOR 4284267.
  11. Goode, James (2004). "Reviewed Work: The Great American Plunder of Persia's Antiquities, 1925-1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Middle East Journal. 58 (2): 319–320. JSTOR 4330019.
  12. Abdi, Kamyar (2004). "Reviewed Work: The Great American Plunder of Persia's Antiquities 1925-1941 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Iranian Studies. 37 (4): 737–742. JSTOR 4311699.
  13. Cronin, Stephanie (2004). "Reviewed Work: Persia in World War I and Its Conquest by Great Britain by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Iranian Studies. 37 (4): 721–723. JSTOR 4311693.
  14. Long, C. W. R. (2007). "Reviewed Works: Britain and the Opening up of South-West Persia, 1880-1914 by Shahbaz Shahnavaz; Persia in World War I and Its Conquest by Great Britain by M. Gholi Majd". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 34 (3): 421–423. JSTOR 20455546.
  15. Floor, Willem (2005). "Review of The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917–1919". Iranian Studies. 38 (1): 192–196. doi:10.1080/0021086042000336582. S2CID 216147598.
  16. Walsh, Pat (August 2010). "Who Remembers the Persians...? Book Review. The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917-1919" (PDF). Irish Foreign Affairs. 3 (3): 4–7.
  17. Burman, John (2008). "Reviewed Work: Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest by Mohammad Gholi Majd". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 40 (2): 335–337. doi:10.1017/S0020743808080689. JSTOR 30069627. S2CID 162294145.
  18. Tripp, Charles (2009). "Reviewed Work: Iraq in World War I: From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest by Mohammad Gholi Majd". The Historian. 71 (3): 583–584. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2009.00246_3.x. JSTOR 24454671. S2CID 144251321.
  19. Kittner, Nance F. (2008). "Oil and the Killing of American Consul in Tehran by Mohammad Gholi Majd". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 40 (4): 712–714. doi:10.1017/s0020743808081774.
  20. Dailami, Pezhmann (2010). "Reviewed Work: From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919-1930 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 42 (4): 702–703. doi:10.1017/S0020743810001005. JSTOR 41308726. S2CID 163050529.
  21. Devos, Bianca (2011). "From Qajar to Pahlavi: Iran, 1919-1930 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Abstracta Iranica. 31: 178. doi:10.4000/abstractairanica.39598.
  22. Kozhanov, Nikolay (2014). "August 1941. The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs, by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Middle Eastern Studies. 50 (3): 511–516. doi:10.1080/00263206.2013.877714. S2CID 142626788.
  23. Siebertz, Roman (2016). "August 1941. The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Iranian Studies. 49 (6): 1112–1115. doi:10.1080/00210862.2016.1241653.
  24. Cronin, Stephanie (2017). "Iran Under Allied Occupation in World War II: The Bridge to Victory & A Land of Famine by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Middle Eastern Studies. 53 (2): 326–327. doi:10.1080/00263206.2016.1220727. S2CID 152031825.
  25. Hecht, Clara (2018). "Recent Publications. A Victorian Holocaust: Iran in the Great Famine of 1869-1873 by Mohammad Gholi Majd". Middle East Journal. 72 (2): 353.
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