Islamic History as World History

Marshall Hodgson, ‘The Venture of Islam’

Bibliographic Data

ID8969744
AuthorsEdmund Burke (0000-0003-0712-4762, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author)
Year1979
Volume10
Issue2
Pages241-264
Publication date1979-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743800034796
OpenAlexW2170421562
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited16

At a time when orientalism is under attack both from within and without the profession, the publication of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's three-volume work, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization 1 is an event of major importance. So rich is its subject, so complex and ambitious its analytic scheme and serious its moral purpose that it is difficult in brief compass to give an idea of the book. In the following pages, I discuss those aspects of the work that seem to me most important for an understanding of its achievement and significance. In the end, I shall argue, The Venture of Islam must be seen as the most ambitious and successful effort to salvage the orientalist tradition to date

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