Touraj Atabaki (Persian: ???? ???????, born February 23, 1950) is the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
He also holds the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the School of Middle East Studies of Leiden University, and is past president of the Association for Iranian Studies and the European Society for Central Asian Studies.Atabaki earned his doctorate from Utrecht University in 1991 with a dissertation titled Ethnicity and autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan : the autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946.