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According to Wikipedia, Roy Parviz Mottahedeh is an American historian who is Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught courses on the pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East and is an expert on Iranian culture. Mottahedeh served as the director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1987 to 1990, and as the inaugural director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University from 2005 to 2011. He is a follower of the Baha'i faith.

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Roy Mottahedeh's Published Works

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Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society (1980) (164)
Islam, Biography, and the Transmission of Knowledge@@@Knowledge and Power in Morocco: The Education of a Twentieth Century Notable@@@The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (1988) (110)
The Shu'ûbîyah Controversy and the Social History of Early Islamic Iran (1976) (68)
The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina : their historic development from the Middle Ages to the dissolution of Yugoslavia (1993) (42)
The Crusades from the perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim world (2001) (40)
Globalization and the Muslim world : culture, religion, and modernity (2004) (35)
The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique (2003) (18)
THE ‘ABBĀSID CALIPHATE IN IRAN (1975) (18)
The Mantle of the Prophet (2008) (17)
The Eastern Travels of Solomon: Reimagining Persepolis and the Iranian Past (2013) (16)
The mantle of the prophet : learning and power in modern Iran (1986) (13)
Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence (2003) (11)
An Elegant Composition: Concerning Relief after Adversity (1996) (10)
Iran's Foreign Devils (1980) (7)
The Idea of Iran in the Buyid Dominions (2012) (6)
Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy (2016) (5)
The Najaf Ḥawzah Curriculum 1 (2016) (5)
Pluralism and Islamic Traditions of Sectarian Divisions (2013) (3)
Medieval Lexicography on Arabic and Persian Terms for City and Countryside (2018) (2)
Finding Iran in the Panegyrics of the Ghaznavid Court (2015) (2)
The Eastern Travels of Solomon (2013) (1)
Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture (2018) (1)
Friendship in Islamic Ethical Philosophy (2016) (1)
Cities of Medieval Iran (2020) (1)
AFTERWORD (2007) (0)
Sources for the study of Iran (1967) (0)
Preface (2018) (0)
The Islamic Foundation for citizenship and pluralism (2015) (0)
Selected Bibliography of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani (2016) (0)
Images of Iran (1986) (0)
Index of Geographical Places (2016) (0)
J. J. Saunders, Muslims and Mongols: Essays on Medieval Asia . Ed. G. W. Rice. (University of Canterbury Publication, 24.) Christchurch, New Zealand: Whitcoulls, for the University of Canterbury, 1977. Pp. 142; frontispiece portrait. $7.95. (1979) (0)
Title <書評>A.E. Laiou and R.P. Mottahedeh eds., The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2021) (0)

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