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Professor Roy Mottahedeh
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
38 Kirkland street
Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES, 38 Kirkland Street
617-495-8433
Assistant: Jessica Madri, 617-495-4055, jmadri@fas.harvard.edu

617-496-8584
mottahed@fas.harvard.edu

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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."