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The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam

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Divinity Atlas. "The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/the-venture-of-islam-volume-1-the-classical-age-of-islam.

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  title = {The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam},
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Marshall G. S. Hodgson was a historian of Islamic civilization, and this University of Chicago Press volume is the first of his landmark three-volume history, published posthumously, covering the formative and classical periods of Islamic civilization. Its strength is genuine influence, the work shaped how the academic field subsequently frames Islamic civilization as a whole rather than as an appendage to European history. Its limit is its age and the fact of posthumous publication, it is a mid-twentieth century synthesis and some of its specific historical claims have since been revised by later scholarship, so a claim about a current historical question is better checked against more recent work alongside this influential but dated source.

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Marshall Hodgson's landmark, posthumously published history of Islamic civilization's formative and classical periods; a highly influential synthesis that shaped how the field frames Islamic civilization, though a mid twentieth century work whose specific historical claims have since been revised in places, so a claim about current consensus may need a more recent source alongside it.

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The first volume of Marshall Hodgson's landmark posthumously published history of Islamic civilization, covering its formative and classical periods. A highly influential work that shaped how the field frames Islamic civilization, but a mid-twentieth-century synthesis; some of its specific historical claims have since been revised by later scholarship, so a claim about current consensus may need a more recent source alongside it.

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Author

Marshall G. S. Hodgson

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication Year

1974

Source Type

academic monograph

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Source The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of IslamMarshall G. S. Hodgson

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