Joseph Fletcher (historian)


Joseph F. Fletcher, Jr., usually referred to as Joseph Fletcher, was an American historian of China and Central Asia and a professor in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department of Harvard University. His main areas of research included interaction between the Islamic and Chinese worlds, Manchu and Mongol studies.
He graduated from Harvard University.
His son is , who played Sixth Officer James Paul Moody in Titanic.

Notable works

Joseph Fletcher contributed several chapters to vol. 10 of The Cambridge History of China:
Joseph Fletcher's posthumously published work, The Naqshbandiyya in Northwest China, remains one of the main English-languages sources on the introduction of Sufism into China, and is extensively cited by practically all books in English on Islam in China published since then.