September 13, 2006 Source: :
http://www.carleton.ca/duc/newsroom/newsreleases/Sept_12b.html Harvard Professor to Speak on "The Case of Islam" at Carleton U. on Sept. 22 Part of 10th Anniversary of College of Humanities at Carleton As part of the 10th Anniversary of the College of the Humanities at Carleton University, the College is presenting a public lecture by Dr. Roy P. Mottahedeh entitled "Pluralism in Non-Western Traditions: the Case of Islam". The lecture takes place at 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. on Friday, September 22 in the Bell Theatre of the Minto Centre Building. Dr. Mottahedeh is the Gurney Professor of History at Harvard University and the Chair of the Committee on Islamic Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. He completed his studies at Harvard and Cambridge universities before joining the faculty at Harvard. His research focuses on pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Muslim Middle East, and he has received numerous academic awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, a Foreign Policy Association Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, the Harvard Detur Prize, and the Shaw Harvard Traveling Fellowship. Among his publications are Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran, and Loyalty and Leadership in Early Islamic Society. The public is also invited to attend a reception following the lecture. For more information, you can contact Dr. Gregory MacIsaac at 613-520-2600 ext. 1803. -30- For more information: D. Gregory MacIsaac
Assistant Professor of Humanities (Philosophy)
The College of the Humanities at Carleton University
613-520-2600, ext.1803 Lin Moody
Media Relations
Carleton University
613-520-2600 ext. 8705
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