Roy Mottahedeh

Roy Mottahedeh

Gurney Professor of Islamic History, Emeritus
Roy Mottahedeh

Professor Mottahedeh's major work is on the pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. His publications include Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society (1980) and The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (1985). He is the faculty adviser of a new journal, The Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review. He is currently working on the medieval Middle Eastern literature on "marvels."

Professor Mottahedeh is teaching; his last leave was spring 2013.

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Harvard University
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Cambridge, MA 02138

office hours: contact The History Department
p: 617-495-8433

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