Roy Mottahedeh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Roy Mottahedeh

American academic

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1940

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: historian

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (born July 3, 1940 in New York City) 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 Mottahedeh served as the director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1987 to 1990, and as the inaugural director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University from 2005 to 2011.