12 Facts About Roy Mottahedeh

Roy Parviz Mottahedeh was born on July 3,1940 and 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.

Roy Parviz Mottahedeh was born in New York City on July 3,1940.

Roy Mottahedeh received his primary and secondary education in Quaker schools in New York and Pennsylvania.

Roy Mottahedeh was elected a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and received his PhD in 1970 for a dissertation on Buyid administration.

Roy Mottahedeh began his teaching career at Princeton University in 1970.

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Roy Mottahedeh was one of the first group of MacArthur fellows in 1981.

In 1986 Roy Mottahedeh returned to Harvard University as Professor of Islamic History in the History Department.

Roy Mottahedeh served as the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University from 1987 to 1990 and founded the Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review as a medium for Harvard students and teachers to publish their work.

Roy Mottahedeh was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as a series editor for several academic publishers.

Roy Mottahedeh received an honorary degree from the University of Lund, Sweden, in 2006.

Roy Mottahedeh served as Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard from 2006 to 2011.

Roy Mottahedeh is the author of numerous articles on a wide range of topics from the Abbasid period in the eighth century to Islamic revival movements of the present day.