R. Stephen Humphreys

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R. Stephen Humphreys
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (PhD)
Occupation(s)Historian, professor
Years active1969-present
EmployerUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Known forHistory of Southwest Asia and North Africa
Notable workBetween Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age, From Saladin to the Mongols, Mu'awiya ibn abi Sufyan: From Arabia to Empire
Title'Abd al-Aziz al-Sa'ud Professor Emeritus

R. Stephen Humphreys is an American historian specializing in the history of Southwest Asia and North Africa. He was the 'Abd al-Aziz al-Sa'ud Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is now an emeritus professor at that institution.

Humphreys received a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1969.

Humphreys' Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age has been widely reviewed and cited as a good introductory work on the region.[1] He has also written a history of the Ayyubids, From Saladin to the Mongols (1977), and a biography of the first Umayyad caliph, Mu'awiya I, Mu'awiya ibn abi Sufyan: From Arabia to Empire (2006).

A festschrift was published in Humphreys' honor by the Darwin Press based on lectures given at a conference at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota.[2][3]

Sources

  1. ^ Rubin, Barry (2016). "Book Review: R. Stephen Humphreys, Between Memory and Desire : The Middle East in a Troubled Age (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999, 272 pp., $29.95 hbk.)". Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 28 (3): 785–787. doi:10.1177/03058298990280030438.
  2. ^ "Historical Dimensions of Islam". Darwin Press. Archived from the original on 8 February 2017.
  3. ^ Lindsay, James E.; Armajani, Jon, eds. (2009). Historical Dimensions of Islam: Pre-modern and Modern Periods. Darwin Press. ISBN 978-0-87850-190-8.
  • Contributor listing, The Cambridge History of Egypt, Vol. 1, Islamic Egypt 640-1517
  • "Stephen Humphreys". Department of History, UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 6 January 2020.