Mezue nkebi ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ọ kwagara New York City, bụ́ ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Mahadum Columbia ma nweta akara ugo mmụta MA mbụ ya na 1966. Ọ natara MA nke abụọ na Oxford n'afọ 1968. Abrahamian nwetara PhD site na Columbia na 1969. Akara edemede ya bụ "Social Bases of Iranian Politics: The Tudeh Party, 1941-53". Abrahamian ekwuola na "nghọta ya banyere Iran [bụ]... nke kachasị [site na] nsogbu mmanụ nke 1951-53 nke ruru na
mgbanwe ọchịchị. "