{{Short description|Professor of History}} '''Hirotake Maeda''' is Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of [[Tokyo Metropolitan University]]. He specializes in [[Middle Eastern Studies]], Eurasian Studies, and the histories of [[Iran]] and the [[Caucasus]]. He focuses in particular on the origins of the ''[[Gholaman-e khasseh-ye sharifeh|gholam]]'' (also spelled ''ghulam'') military "slaves" of [[Safavid Iran]] and their role and position in Iran's history, using [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Georgian language|Georgian]] sources.<ref>{{cite web |title=History and Archaeology |url=https://www.tmu.ac.jp/english/researcher/until_2017/faculty/urban_liberal/hss/his/rekishikouko.html |website=tmu.ac.jp |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hirotake Maeda |url=https://researchmap.jp/read0132616/?lang=en |website=researchmap.jp |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * {{cite journal |last1=Maeda |first1=Hirotake |title=On the Ethno-Social Background of Four Gholām Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran |journal=Studia Iranica |date=2003 |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=243-278 |doi=10.2143/SI.32.2.563203}} * {{cite book |last1=Maeda |first1=Hirotake |editor1-last=Floor |editor1-first=Willem |editor2-last=Herzig |editor2-first=Edmund |editor1-link=Willem Floor |editor2-link=Edmund Herzig |title=Iran and the World in the Safavid Age |date=2012 |publisher=I.B.Tauris |isbn=978-1850439301 |chapter=Exploitation Of The Frontier: The Caucasus Policy Of Shah 'Abbas I}} * {{cite book |last1=Maeda |first1=Hirotake |editor1-last=Amanat |editor1-first=Abbas |editor2-last=Ashraf |editor2-first=Assef |editor1-link=Abbas Amanat |title=The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere |date=2019 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-38562-7 |pages=169–195 |chapter=Lives of the Enikolopians: Multilingualism and the Religious-National Identity of a Caucasus Family in the Persianate World}}
==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Maeda, Hirotake}}
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