Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri iho ka neke ia ki New York City, i reira ia i ako ai i te Whare Wānanga o Columbia, a, i whiwhi i tana MA tuatahi i te tau 1966. I whakawhiwhia e ia he MA tuarua mai i Oxford i te 1968. I whiwhi a Abrahamian i te PhD mai i Columbia i te 1969. Ko tana tuhinga i tapaina ko "Ko nga Tikanga Hapori o te Pori Iranian: Ko te Tudeh Party, 1941-53". Kua kii a Abrahamian ko tana "maatauranga mo Iran [i]... i tino hangaia [e] te raru hinu o te 1951-53 i mutu i te
Ko te mahi".