Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (born July 3, 1940 in New York City) is a professor of pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East at Harvard University and expert on Iranian culture. [1]
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Life
Mottahedeh is the son of philanthropist and Mottahedeh & Company co-founder Mildred Mottahedeh, who was Bahá'í community representative to the United Nations.
Mottahedeh graduated from George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania in 1957, and from Harvard University, with a B.A. in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1970.
Awards
- 1982 MacArthur Fellowship
Works
- Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. I.B.Tauris. 2001. ISBN 9781860641817. http://books.google.com/books?id=MVKmnrAydA8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Roy+Mottahedeh&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. (2nd edition)
- The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran. Oneworld. 2000. ISBN 9781851682348.
- Angeliki E. Laiou, Roy P. Mottahedeh, ed (2001). "The Idea of Jihad in Islam before the Crusades". The Crusades from the perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim world. Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 9780884022770. http://books.google.com/books?id=YTAhPw3SjxIC&lpg=PP1&dq=Roy%20Mottahedeh&lr=&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Michael Cromartie, ed (2005). "Islam: A Primer". Religion, culture, and international conflict: a conversation. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742544734. http://books.google.com/books?id=9Txu6txvkSUC&pg=PA53&dq=Roy+Mottahedeh&lr=&cd=10#v=onepage&q=Roy%20Mottahedeh&f=false.
- Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence. Oneworld Publications. 2005. ISBN 9781851683932.: a translation of Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr, Durus fi Ilm al-Usul
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