Toby E. Huff (born April 24, 1942) is an American academic and emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.[1] He was born in Portland, Maine.[2] He was trained as a sociologist but has research interests in the history, philosophy and sociology of science. He has published Weber-inspired studies of the Arab and Muslim world, as well as China, including field work in Malaysia.[3] He is best known for his book The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West. Now in a third edition, it has been translated into Arabic (twice), Chinese, Korean, and Turkish. His explanation of the cultural and scientific divergence between Arabic/Islamic and European science in the medieval period has been widely influential, especially among economic historians such as Richard Lipsey,[4] Jan Luiten van Zanden,[5] Peer Vries,[6] among others.
Huff’s sociological approach to the European development, its legal transformation, along with the rise of the universities and modern science has been incorporated in several mainstream history texts.[7]
- ^ "Scientific Revolution in Comparative Perspective: Europe, Islam and China | K-12 Resources | The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization | TTU". www.depts.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ "Toby Huff's curriculum vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
- ^ The Writer’s Directory, 2010; Who’s Who in American Education, 2007-2008
- ^ Economic Transitions. General Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- ^ The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution. The European Economy in a Global Perspective. Leyden: Brill, 2009.
- ^ Escaping Poverty. The Origins of Modern Economic Growth. Vienna: University of Vienna Press, 2013.
- ^ Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Clare Haru Crowston, Joe Perry, A History of Western Society., 13th ed. McMillan.
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