R. Stephen Humphreys
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. 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1977Albany : State University of New York Press, 1977.504 p. ; 24 cm. -
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Published 1991Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.xiv, 401 p. ; 25 cm.Publisher description
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Published 1990Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1990.xx, 285 p. ; 24 cm.Other Authors: “...Humphreys, R. Stephen...”