Louise Marlow

Louise Marlow received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and is currently Director of Middle Eastern Studies at Wellesley College.

Her research lies in the fields of medieval Islamic history and Arabic and Persian literature, and she is particularly concerned with advice literature, ‘mirrors for princes’ and related genres.

Her principal publications include Writers and Rulers: Perspectives from Abbasid to Safavid Times, co-edited with Beatrice Gruendler (Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2004) and Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

She is currently engaged in a study of literary works composed in Khurasan during the tenth and eleventh centuries and the diverse cultural and linguistic milieux in which they took shape, and she is preparing a translation of the Nasihat al-muluk (Counsel for Kings) of Pseudo-Mawardi.

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