Abbas Malekzadeh Milani is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Born in 1949, Milani serves as a visiting professor of political science and is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University. He is also a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Milani's book, Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran (2004, Mage Publications), provides evidence that Persian modernism dates back over a thousand years. His areas of expertise include U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.