***Update: A memorial service honoring Professor Mottahedeh will be held on Friday, October 25, 2024, at 2:00 PM at the Memorial Church, Harvard University. For further details, please see here.***
Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, a longtime friend to the Program in Islamic Law and a member emeritus of our advisory and editorial boards, sadly passed away on July 30, 2024.
In remembrance and celebration of Professor Mottahedeh’s legacy and scholarship, the Islamic Law Blog will be publishing a series throughout this month. In the first part of our series earlier this month, we published our Editor-in-Chief Professor Intisar Rabb’s condolence message to our readers and followers. In the second part of our series, we remembered Professor Mottahedeh’s legacy through Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, edited by Intisar Rabb & Abigail Balbale (Cambridge: Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Harvard University Press 2017), a festschrift published in his honor. Last week, in part three of our series commemorating Professor Mottahedeh’s legacy, we republished the tabula gratulatoria from Justice and Leadership – a compilation of notes authored by Professor Mottahedeh’s students, colleagues, and friends that celebrate his life, legacy, and scholarship. The full list of contributors and their full notes are available online here.
In our fourth and final part of the series commemorating Professor Mottahedeh, we are republishing his bibliography, as excerpted from Justice and Leadership, as a testament to his prolific and impactful scholarship.
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1960
- “Shaykh Abu Ishaq al-Kazaruni and the Persian Renaissance.” A.B. Honors Thesis, Harvard University, 1960.
1967
- “Sources for the Study of Iran.” Iranian Studies 1, no. 1 (Winter 1967): 4–7.
- “Na’ím: a Bahá’í poet.” World Order (Winter 1967): 47–53.
1968
- A Century of Administration in Iraq and Iran. n.p.: 1968.
1970
- “Administration in the Būyid Kingdom of Rayy.” PhD Diss., Harvard University, 1970.
1973
- “Administration in Būyid Qazwīn.” In Islamic Civilisation 950– 1150: A Colloquium Published under the Auspices of the Near Eastern History Group, Oxford, the Near East Center, University of Pennsylvania. Edited by D. S. Richards. Oxford: Cassirer, 1973: 33–45.
1975
- “The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Iran.” In The Cambridge History of Iran. Edited by R. N. Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975: 4:57–89.
1976
- “The Shuʿûbîyah Controversy and the Social History of Early Islamic Iran.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 7, no. 2 (April 1976): 161–82.
1980
- Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
- “Some Attitudes towards Monarchy and Absolutism in the Eastern Islamic World of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries A.D.” Israel Oriental Studies 10 (1980): 85–91.
- “Iran’s Foreign Devils.” Foreign Policy 38 (Spring 1980): 19–34.
- The Shuʻūbīyah controversy and the social history of early Islamic Iran. Vol. 28 of Princeton Near East Papers. Princeton, NJ: Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 1980. (Reprint of 8.)
1981
- “A Note on the ‘Tasbib’.” In Studia Arabica et Islamica: Festschrift for Ihsān ʿAbbās on His Sixtieth Birthday. Edited by Wadad al-Qadi. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1981: 347–51.
1983
- “Bureaucracy and the Patrimonial State in Early Islamic Iran and Iraq.” al-Abhath 29 (1983): 25–36.
1984
- “The Foundations of State and Society.” In Islam: The Religious and Political Life of a World Community. Edited by Marjorie Kelly. New York: Praeger, 1984: 55–72.
1985
- The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran. New York: Pantheon, 1985.
1987
- Der Mantel des Propheten oder das Leben eines persischen Mullah zwischen Religion und Politik. Translation by Klaus Krieger. Munich: Beck, 1985. (German translation of 16.)
1989
- “Consultation and the Political Process in the Islamic Middle East of the 9th, 10th, and 11th Centuries.” In Arabian Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Ghul: Symposium at Yarmouk University, December 8-10, 1984. Edited by Moawiyah M. Ibrahim. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1989: 83–88.
- “ʿAzod-al-Dawla.” In Encyclopaedia Iranica. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1989: 3:265–69.
1991
- With Antonia Chayes. “Security Diplomacy for the Middle East.” The Aspen Quarterly (1991): 74–97.
1992
- “Afkār hawl taswiya mā baʿd al-azma fī al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ.” In Azmat al-Khalīj wa-mustaqbal al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ: Ruʾā ʿArabiyya wa- Amrīkiyya. Edited by Saʿd al-Dīn Ibrāhīm and Ḥasan Wajīh. Kuwait: Dār Suʿād al-Ṣabāḥ; Cairo: Markaz Ibn Khaldūn lil-Dirāsāt al- Inmāʾiyya, 1992: 51–65.
1993
- “Toward an Islamic Theology of Toleration.” In Islamic Law Reform and Human Rights: Challenges and Rejoinders. Edited by Tore Lindholm and Kari Vogt. Oslo: Nordic Human Rights Publications, 1993: 25–36.
- “Consultation and the Political Process in the Islamic Middle East of the 9th, 10th, and 11th Centuries.” In Islam and Public Law: Classical and Contemporary Studies. Edited by Chibli Mallat. London: Graham and Totman, 1993: 19–28. (Reprint of 18.)
1994
- Foreword to The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. Edited by Mark Pinson. Cambridge, MA: Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1994: vii–viii.
- “Some Islamic Views of the Pre-Islamic Past.” Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 1, no. 1 (1994): 17–26.
1995
- “Traditional Shiʿite Education in Qom.” Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 2, no. 1 (1995): 89–98.
- “The Islamic World 1400–1700.” In Societies and Cultures in World History. Edited by Mark Kishlansky et al.. New York: Harper Collins, 1995: 440–71.
- “The Islamic Movement: The Case for Democratic Inclusion.” Contention 4 (Spring 1995): 107–27.
- “The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique.” Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 2, no. 2 (1995): 1–26.
1996
- “Shiʿite Political Thought and The Destiny of the Iranian Revolution.” In Iran and the Gulf: A Search for Stability. Edited by Jamal S. Suwaidi. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996: 70–80.
- “al-Fikr al-siyāsī al-Shīʿī wa-maṣīr al-thawra al-Īrāniyya.” In Īrān waʾl-Khalīj: al-baḥth ʿan al-istiqrār. Edited and translated by Jamāl Sanad al-Suwaydī. Abu Dhabi: Markaz al-Imārāt lil-Dirāsāt waʾl- Buḥūth al-Istirātījiyya, 1996: 103–15. (Arabic translation of 30.)
- “Astonishment in the 1001 Nights.” Hạdīth al-Dār 4 (1996): 21–24.
1997
- “Ajaʾib in The Thousand and One Nights.” In The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society. Edited by Richard C. Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997: 29–39.
- “The Transmission of Learning: The Role of the Islamic Northeast.” In Madrasa: la transmission du savoir dans le monde musulman. Edited by Nicole Grandin and Marc Gaborieau. Paris: Editions Arguments, 1997: 63–72.
- With Mamoun Fandy. “The Islamic Movement: The Case for Democratic Inclusion.” In The Persian Gulf at the Millennium: Essays in Politics, Economy, Security, and Religion. Edited by Gary G. Sick and Lawrence G. Potter. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997: 297–318.
1998
- “Traditional Shiʿite Education in Qom.” In Philosophers on Education: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. London: Routledge, 1998: 449–54. (Reprint of 26.)
- “In memoriam: Jeanette Ann Wakin (1928–1998).” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 32, no. 1 (1998): 141–42.
2000
- The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran. Oxford: Oneworld, 2000. (Reprint with a new introduction of 16.)
2001
- Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. (Reprint with a new introduction of 9.)
- With Angeliki E. Laiou, eds. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001.
- “The Idea of Jihād in Islam before the Crusades.” In The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001: 23–29.
- “A Just War? Judeo-Christian and Islamic Perspectives: A Conversation with J. Bryan Hehir and Roy Mottahedeh.” Panel hosted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, December 10, 2001: 1–29.
- “Brother and Brotherhood.” In Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān. Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden: Brill, 2001: 1:259–63.
2003
- aṣ-Ṣadr, Muhammad Bāqir. Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence. Translated and edited by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.
- “Keeping the Shiʿites Straight.” Religion in the News 6, no. 2 (2003): 4–6.
- With Kristen Stilt. “Public and Private as Viewed Through the Work of the Muhtasib.” Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences 70, no. 3 (2003): 735–48.
- “The Clash of Civilizations: An Islamicist’s Critique.” In The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy. Edited by Emran Qureshi and Michael A. Sells. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: 131–51. (Reprint of 29.)
2004
- Foreword to Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity. Edited by Birgit Schaebler and Leif Stenberg. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2004: vii–ix.
2005
- Profetens kappe: laerdom og magt i Iran. Translation by Claus Bech. Copenhagen: Forlaget Vandkunsten 2005. (Danish translation of 16.)
- Foreword to Modern Islamic Political Thought: the Response of the Shīʿī and the Sunnī Muslims to the Twentieth Century. By Hamid Enayat. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005: ix–x.
- With Jay Tolson. “Islam: A Primer.” In Religion, Culture, and International Conflict: A Conversation. Edited by Michael Cromartie. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005: 53–72.
2006
- “Pluralism and Islamic Traditions of Sectarian Divisions.” Svensk Teologisk Kvartzalskrift 82 (2006): 155–61.
2007
- Afterword to Shariʿa: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context. Edited by Abbas Amanat and Frank Griffel. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007: 178–82.
- Burdat al-Nabī: al-dīn wa’l-siyāsa fī Irān. Translation by Ridwān al-Sayyid. Beirut: Dār al-Madār al-Islāmī, 2007. (Arabic translation of 16.)
2008
- “Oaths and Public Vows in the Middle East of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries.” In Oralité et lien social au moyen âge (Occident, Byzance, Islam): parole donnée, foi jurée, serment. Edited by Marie- France Auzépy and Guillaume Saint-Guillain. Paris: ACHCByz, 2008: 117–22.
2009
- Awzāʿ-i ijtemā ʿī-yi dawreh-yi Āl-i Būyeh. Mashhad: n.p., 2009. (Persian translation of 9.)
2010
- “Faith and Practice: Muslims in Historic Cairo.” In Living in Historic Cairo: Past and Present in an Islamic City. Edited by Farhad Daftary, Elizabeth Fernea, and Azim Nanji. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010: 104–16.
- “Pluralism and Islamic Traditions of Sectarian Divisions.” In Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims. Edited by Zulfikar Hirji. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010: 3–42.
2012
- “The Idea of Iran in the Buyid Dominions.” In Early Islamic Iran. Edited by Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012: 153–60.
- “Qurʾānic commentary on the verse of khums (al-Anfāl VIII: 41).” In Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet. Edited by Morimoto Kazuo. New York: Routledge, 2012: 3–48.
2013
- “The Eastern Travels of Solomon: Re-imagining Persepolis and the Iranian Past.” In Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi. Edited by Michael Cook, Najam Haider, Intisar Rabb, and Asma Sayeed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013: 247–67.
- With Michael Cook et al. Introduction, to Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of Professor Hossein Modarressi. Edited by Michael Cook, Najam Haider, Intisar Rabb, and Asma Sayeed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
2014
- The Quandaries of Emulation: The Theory and Politics of Shi‘i Manuals of Practice. The 2011 Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies. Seattle: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, 2014.
- “The Islamic Foundation for Citizenship and Pluralism.” Kufa Review 7 (2014): 9–15.
2015
- “Finding Iran in the Panegyrics of the Ghaznavid Court.” In Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Civilisation. Edited by A.C.S. Peacock and D.G. Tor. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015: 129–42.
2016
- With Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston, and William Granara, eds. Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy. Vol. 31 of Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
- “Friendship in Islamic Ethical Philosophy.” In Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy. Edited by Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston, Roy P. Mottahedeh, and William Granara. Vol. 31 of Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 229–39.
- “The Najaf Ḥawzah Curriculum.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 26, nos. 1–2 (2016): 341–51.
Forthcoming
- “Caliphate.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Edited by Bryan S. Turner. Forthcoming 2017.
- With David Durand-Guédy, eds. Cities of Medieval Iran: Sites, Society, Politics, and Culture. Forthcoming 2018.