Michael G. Morony
American historian
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Michael G. Morony's Degrees
- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Gregory Morony has been a professor of history at UCLA since 1974, with interests in the history of Ancient and Islamic Near East. Morony was born in 1939 in Sacramento and was raised in Alaska. He holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Islamic Studies and a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation, originally advised by Gustave von Grunebaum, was concerned with the history of Mesopotamia after the Islamic Conquests. The edited dissertation was later published as Iraq After the Muslim Conquest. Upon von Grunebaum's death, his dissertation was supervised by Nikki Keddie. In addition to these scholars, Morony has also worked with W. B. Henning in Berkeley and M. A. Shaban.
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Published Works
- Iraq After the Muslim Conquest (1984) (193)
- Economic Boundaries? Late Antiquity and Early Islam (2004) (48)
- Continuity and Change in the Administrative Geography of Late Sasanian and Early Islamic al-Iraq (1982) (35)
- The Effects of the Muslim Conquest on the Persian Population of Iraq (1976) (32)
- Religious Communities in Late Sasanian and Early Muslim Iraq1) (1974) (24)
- The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-797 (1990) (20)
- Production and the exploitation of resources (2002) (15)
- Book Review:Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World Patricia Crone, Michael Cook (1982) (11)
- MICHAEL THE SYRIAN AS A SOURCE FOR ECONOMIC HISTORY (2010) (9)
- Plague and the End of Antiquity: ‘For Whom Does the Writer Write?’ (2006) (8)
- Religion and the Aramaic Incantation Bowls (2007) (5)
- Bayn al-Fitnatayn: Problems in the Periodization of Early Islamic History (1981) (5)
- The Early Islamic Mining Boom (2019) (5)
- Iran in the Early Islamic Period (2012) (4)
- Markets for Land, Labour and Capital in Late Antique Iraq, AD 200-700 (2014) (3)
- A Social and Economic History of the Near East in the Middle Ages . By E. Ashtor. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1976. Pp. 384. $18.50. (1977) (3)
- Universality in Islamic thought : rationalism, science and religious belief (2014) (2)
- Between civil wars : the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah (1987) (2)
- Sources for the First Century of Islam (1978) (2)
- Book Review The Chronicle of Zuqnin, Parts III and IV: A. D. 488-775 Amir Harrak (2002) (2)
- Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq (2021) (2)
- The Islamic Conquest of Sasanian Iran (2013) (2)
- Christians in Iraq After the Muslim Conquest (2009) (1)
- Book Review The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate Wilferd Madelung (2000) (1)
- The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers by Jack Tannous (review) (2020) (1)
- The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads, by Jan Retsö. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003. 684 pages, endnotes, maps, bibliography, index. US$100.00 (Cloth) ISBN: 0-7007-1679-3 (2004) (1)
- Manufacturing and Labour (2016) (1)
- Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory: An Inquiry into the Art of ‘Abbāsid Apologetics, by Jacob Lassner. (American Oriental Series, vol. 66.) 156 pages, appendices, bibliography, index. American Oriental Society, New Haven 1986. $22.00. (1988) (1)
- :The Buwayhid Dynasty in Iraq 334H./945 to 403H./1012: Shaping the Institutions of the Future (2007) (1)
- Book Review Meccan Trade and Islam: Problems of Origin and Structure Robert Simon (1994) (0)
- Oleg Grabar, The Formation of Islamic Art (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1973). Pp. 19+ 227; 131 illustrations. (1975) (0)
- Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa. By Walter E. Kaegi (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010) 345 pp. $99.00 (2012) (0)
- Islamic Historiography. The Histories of Mas‘ūd̄ī, by Tarif KhalidiIslamic Historiography. The Histories of Mas‘ūd̄ī, by Tarif Khalidi. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1975. 180 pp. (1976) (0)
- Book Review Labour in the Medieval Islamic World Maya Shatzmiller (1998) (0)
- MICHAEL LECKER, Muslims, Jews and Pagans: Studies on Early Islamic Medina. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1995, xvi + 180 pp. Nlg. 95/$ 54.50. (1998) (0)
- The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran (review) (2010) (0)
- Weadyslaw Kubiak, Al-Fustāt: Its Foundation and Early Urban Development (Warsaw: Rozprawy Uniwersytetu Warsawskiego, 1982). Pp. 224, 6 maps. (1985) (0)
- Robert G. Hoyland, Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam , Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 13 (Princeton, N.J.: Darwin Press, 1997). Pp. 890. $49.95 cloth. (1999) (0)
- Book Review:God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds (1989) (0)
- Jews in Iraq After the Muslim Conquest (2009) (0)
- Book Review:Religious Trends in Early Islamic Iran Wilferd Madelung (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Amulets and Magic Bowls: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked (1988) (0)
- MICHAEL BONNER, MINE ENER and AMY SINGER (eds): Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts. vii, 345 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. $71.50. (2006) (0)
- Book Review:From Jahiliyya to Islam S. Pines, M. J. Kister, S. Shaked (1989) (0)
- Merlin L. Swartz (Trans./Ed.). Studies on Islam. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. 284 pp. $7.95 (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry Bernard Lewis (1995) (0)
- SOCIAL ELITES IN IRAQ AND IRAN: (2021) (0)
- R. Stephen Humphreys. Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry. Rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1991. Pp. xiv, 401. Cloth $39.95, paper $12.95 (1992) (0)
- Peter Verkinderen: Waterways of Iraq and Iran in the Early Islamic Period: Changing Rivers and Landscapes of the Mesopotamian Plain. xviii, 366 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. ISBN 978 1 78076 471 9. (2016) (0)
- Money, power and politics in early Islamic Syria: a review of current debates – Edited by John Haldon (2011) (0)
- Religious Communities in Late Sasanian and Early Muslim Iraq 1 (0)
- G. R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate, A. D. 661–750 (London: Croom Helm, 1986). Pp. 161. (1989) (0)
- Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society, Jamsheed K. Choksy New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, xiv + 207 pp., bibliography, index, $46.00 (hardcover). (1999) (0)
- Apocalyptic Expressions in the Early Islamic World (1998) (0)
- State-Building and Autonomy in 'Abbāsid Frontiers: Ifrīqīy, Thughūr, Mosul, Tabaristān and Sijistān , by Fukuzo Amabe. Tokyo: Nihon Tosho Center, Co., 2005. 235 pages, 5 maps, notes, index. ¥4830 (Cloth) ISBN 4-8205-2000-8 (2006) (0)
- Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian, and Pagan Polities, by Aziz Al-Azmeh. 296 pages, notes, bibliography, index. London/New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1997. $59.50 (Cloth) ISBN 1-86064-053-2 (1998) (0)
- Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa (review) (2012) (0)
- The Arabisation of the Gulf (2020) (0)
- Richard W. Bulliet, Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History . New York and Chichester, Eng.: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 167; black-and-white figures and tables. $35. (2010) (0)
- The Reign of al-Hakim bi Amr Allah (996-1021), by Sadik A. AssaadThe Reign of al-Hakim bi Amr Allah (996-1021), by Sadik A. Assaad. The Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, Beirut, 1974. 209 pp. (1976) (0)
- Omar Saïdi, ed., Kitâb al-‘Uyûn wa-l-Ḥaḍâ'iq fî Akhbâr al-Ḥaqâ'iq: Chronique anonyme (Damascus: Institut français de Damas, 1972), Vol. IV, 256/870–350/961. Pp. lxiv (French introduction and bibliography) + 349 (Arabic text); 4 plates. (1976) (0)
- Paradox of Power: The United States in Southwest Asia, 1973-1984 Maya Chadda (1988) (0)
- The Decline of Iranshahr: Irrigation and Environments in the History of the Middle East, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1500, Peter Christensen, trans. Steven Sampson, Odense: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1993, 351 pp. (1999) (0)
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