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.

For other people with similar names, see Steven Humphries.
R. Stephen Humphreys
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Occupation(s)Historian, professor
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

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.
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