Approaches to Pluralism in Muslim Contexts

Speakers' Profile

Adel Daher

Professor Daher was educated at the American University in Beirut and Frankfurt University.  He obtained his PhD from New York University in 1967. Professor Daher worked as a lecturer in a number of universities in New York for ten years, and is currently professor at Pace University in New York.  Professor Daher is a member of the Philosophical Society, the American Philosophical Society and the Society of International Affairs. 

Main Publications:

• Al-Falsafah wa-al-siyasah (Philosophy & Politics), London: Dar al-Saqi, 1990.
• Al-Usus al-falsafiyah lil-'almaniyah (The Philosophical Foundations of Secularism), Beirut: Dar al-Saqi, 1993.
• Awwaliyat al-`aql: naqd utruhat al-Islam al-siyasI (Primacy of Reason: Criticism of the thesis of Political Islam), Beirut : Dar Amwaj, 2001.

Roy Mottahedeh

Roy Parviz Mottahedeh was educated at Harvard and Cambridge. Professor Mottahedeh is a scholar of pre-modern social and intellectual history in the Islamic Middle East. He is Gurney Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches Medieval Middle Eastern History, Arabic and Persian.  He is also the faculty adviser of the Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review, as well as chair of the Committee on Islamic Studies at Harvard. Professor Mottahedeh has received numerous academic awards, including Guggenheim and MacArthur Prize Fellowships. 

Main Publications:

• Crusades from the perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim world, editors A.E. Laiou and R.P. Mottahedeh.  Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2001.
• The Mantle of the prophet: religion and politics in Iran, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.
• Loyalty and leadership in an early Islamic society, Rev. ed. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 1980.