Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Daga nan sai ya koma Birnin New York, inda ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Columbia kuma ya sami digiri na farko a shekarar 1966. Ya sami digiri na biyu daga Oxford a shekarar 1968. Abrahamian ya sami digiri na PhD daga Columbia a shekarar 1969. Takardar karatunsa mai taken "Social Bases of Iranian Politics: Jam'iyyar Tudeh, 1941-53". Abrahamian ya bayyana cewa "fahimtarsa game da Iran [ya kasance]... mafi girma [ta] rikicin mai na 1951-53 wanda ya ƙare da juyin mulki
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