The Islamic Foundation for citizenship and pluralism

Authors

  • Roy Mottahedeh Gurney Professor of History at Harvard University

Abstract

Human diversity is an assumption of most people in most places. The reality of such diversity is handsomely and clearly stated in a famous and often quoted verse of the Qur’an. Verse 13 of Sūrah 49 reads: Oh men, We have created you from a male and a female, and We have made you into groups (shu`ūb) and tribes (qabā’il) that you may come to know one another; truly, the noblest (akram) among you before God is the most righteous (atqā) among you; truly God is the All-knowing, the All-seeing.

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Author Biography

Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History at Harvard University

Roy P. Mottahedeh is the Gurney Professor of History at Harvard University. Born in New York City on July 3, 1940, he received his primary and secondary education in Quaker schools in New York and Pennsylvania. He graduated magna cum laude in history from Harvard College, undertook a second B.A. in Persian and Arabic at Cambridge University, and received his PhD in 1970 from Harvard University.

Professor Mottahedeh began his teaching career at Princeton University in 1970, and joined Harvard’s faculty in 1986 as Professor of Islamic History in the History Department. In 1994 he was appointed Gurney Professor of History. He also served as the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University from 1987 to 1990, and as Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University from 2006 to 2011.

Professor Mottahedeh's publications include Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society (1980); The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran(1985); The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, co-edited with Angeliki Laiou (2001); and Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence(2003).

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Published

2015-11-21

How to Cite

Mottahedeh, R. (2015) “The Islamic Foundation for citizenship and pluralism”, Kufa Review (Discontinued), 7(1). Available at: https://journal.uokufa.edu.iq/index.php/Kufa_Review/article/view/4492 (Accessed: 30 April 2024).

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015): مجلة الكوفة Kufa review

Section

English Section