Herbert Mason
 University Professor; William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of History and Religious Thought, Professor of History and Religion, College of Arts and Sciences; Director, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Socities and Civilizations
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University.
Professor Mason's teaching includes the field of Arabic and Islamic studies and the presentation of worldviews in the major systems of religious thought and practice and in the classical Mediterranean and Mesopotamian and early Celtic traditions of mythology and literature. His best-known work is Gilgamesh, A Verse Narrative, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1971. Other publications include his four-volume translation of La Passion d'al-Hallaj by Louis Massignon for the Bollingen Series (1983); and also Hallaj (1995). Among his other books are Reflections on the Middle East Crisis (1970), Two Statesmen of Medieval Islam (1971), The Death of al-Hallaj: A Dramatic Narrative (1979), and Moments in Passage: A Memoir (1979). He has also published the novels Summer Light (1980), and Haythu Taltaqí al-Anhar (Where the Rivers Meet, UAE, 1988); the complete English edition of Where the Rivers Meet (2003), the novella Gilpin's Point (1980), the dramatic poem A Legend of Alexander (1986), Memoir of a Friend: Louis Massignon (1988), a collection of essays, Testimonies and Reflections (1989), and a book of poems, Disappearances (1999). An elected member of numerous international professional associations, he is the vice president of the Institut Louis Massignon of Paris. Professor Mason was the recipient of the 2001 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.
Telephone: 617-358-1777
Email: masonh@bu.edu
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