Akihiko Yamaguchi is professor of history of the Middle East in the Faculty of Global Studies at Sophia University.
He obtained his PhD in history from the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes in Paris and after teaching history of the Middle East for nineteen years at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, he joined Sophia University in 2020.
Professor Yamaguchi focuses primarily on the history of Iran and the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to early 20th century, with a special attention to minorities and peripheries. He is particularly interested in aspects of the relations between the Kurdish regions and the central government during the time period. His research interests include ethnic identity in the premodern times, urban-rural relations, and center-periphery relations in the Middle East. He is also at present working on a book project dealing with the history of Iranian Kurdistan during the Safavid period.
“The Safavid Legacy as Viewed from the Periphery: The Formation of Iran and the Political Integration of a Kurdish Emirate," in Nobuaki Kondo ed. Mapping Safavid Iran, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2015, pp. 127-154.
“ran Krdistan’nn Safeviler Dnemindeki Ksa Bir Tarihi,” Krt Tarihi 7 (Haziran-Temmuz 2013), pp. 28-33.
“Shah Tahmasp’s Kurdish Policy,” Studia Iranica, 41 (2012), pp. 101-132.
“A Note on Fruit Cultivation in the Early Eighteenth-Century Hamadan Province,” Eurasian Studies, Liber Amicorum, tudes sur l’Iran mdival et moderne offertes Jean Calmard, Textes runis par Michele Bernardini, Masashi Haneda, Maria Szuppe, V/1-2 (June-December 2006), pp. 377-392.
“Urban-rural Relations in Early Eighteenth-Century Iran - A Case Study of Settlement Patterns in the Province of Hamadan,” in KONDO Nobuaki (ed.), Persian Documents: Social History of Iran and Turan in the Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries, London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003, pp.147-185.
