R. Stephen Humphreys
American historian
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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.
R. Stephen Humphreys | |
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| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (PhD) |
| Occupations | Historian, professor |
| Years active | 1969-present |
| Employer | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Known for | History of Southwest Asia and North Africa |
| Notable work | Between 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 |
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]