Historical Archives: Nov 18, 2008
Tue, November 18, 2008
Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney professor of Islamic history, director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University; co-author, Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity (2004) and author, The Mantle of the Prophet: Learning and Power in Modern Iran (1985); "The Strange and Wonderful in Medieval Persian and Arabic Literature and Art"