Richard Bulliet is a specialist on the Middle East and the Islamic world. A historian at Columbia University for over thirty-five years, he has written books on Iranian history ("I...ver másRichard Bulliet is a specialist on the Middle East and the Islamic world. A historian at Columbia University for over thirty-five years, he has written books on Iranian history ("Islam: The View from the Edge"), religious conversion ("Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period"), climate history ("Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran"), human-animal relationships ("Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers"), and contemporary Islamic affairs ("The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization").
His classroom lectures on Iranian history and the modern history of the Middle East are publicly available on iTunes University--Columbia. Videos of his lectures on world history are available on YouTube.
His works of fiction, beginning with "Kicked to Death by a Camel," which was nominated in 1973 for an Edgar Award in the category of Best First Mystery, blend expertise on the Middle East region with political intrigue and mystery. His latest novel is "The One-Donkey Solution."
Born in Rockford, Illinois, he lives in Manhattan.ver menos