Santa Cruz (Informed Comment) – Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative approach to world history. […]
Edmund Burke III
Edmund Burke III is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research areas are Islamic history, modern Middle Eastern and North African history, Mediterranean history, French history, Orientalism, European imperialism, and world history.
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