Faculty
Roy Mottahedeh
Gurney Professor of History
- telephone: (617) 495-8433
- fax: (617) 496-8584
- office: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street
- faculty assistant: Jessica Madri
- faculty assistant telephone: (617)495-4055
On leave during spring term 2007–2008
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."