# Hirotake Maeda

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Professor of History

**Hirotake Maeda** is Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of [Tokyo Metropolitan University](/source/Tokyo_Metropolitan_University). He specializes in [Middle Eastern Studies](/source/Middle_Eastern_Studies), Eurasian Studies, and the histories of [Iran](/source/Iran) and the [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus). He focuses in particular on the origins of the *[gholam](/source/Gholaman-e_khasseh-ye_sharifeh)* (also spelled *ghulam*) military "slaves" of [Safavid Iran](/source/Safavid_Iran) and their role and position in Iran's history, using [Persian](/source/Persian_language) and [Georgian](/source/Georgian_language) sources.[1][2]

## Selected publications

- Maeda, Hirotake (2003). "On the Ethno-Social Background of Four Gholām Families from Georgia in Safavid Iran". *Studia Iranica*. **32** (2): 243–278. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2143/SI.32.2.563203](https://doi.org/10.2143%2FSI.32.2.563203).

- Maeda, Hirotake (2012). "Exploitation Of The Frontier: The Caucasus Policy Of Shah 'Abbas I". In [Floor, Willem](/source/Willem_Floor); [Herzig, Edmund](/source/Edmund_Herzig) (eds.). *Iran and the World in the Safavid Age*. I.B.Tauris. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1850439301](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1850439301).

- Maeda, Hirotake (2019). "Lives of the Enikolopians: Multilingualism and the Religious-National Identity of a Caucasus Family in the Persianate World". In [Amanat, Abbas](/source/Abbas_Amanat); Ashraf, Assef (eds.). *The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere*. Brill. pp. 169–195. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-90-04-38562-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-38562-7).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["History and Archaeology"](https://www.tmu.ac.jp/english/researcher/until_2017/faculty/urban_liberal/hss/his/rekishikouko.html). *tmu.ac.jp*. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Hirotake Maeda"](https://researchmap.jp/read0132616/?lang=en). *researchmap.jp*. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

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