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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Toby E. Huff is an American academic and emeritus professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He was born in Portland, Maine. 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. He is best known for his book The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West, which has been translated into multiple languages.

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The rise of early modern science : Islam, China, and the West (1994) (225)
The rise of early modern science (1993) (156)
The “Eastern” Origins of Western Civilization? (2014) (89)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective (2012) (57)
Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value (2006) (40)
On the Roads to Modernity: Conscience, Science, and Civilizations (1981) (38)
Max Weber And The Methodology Of The Social Sciences (1983) (31)
Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor and Its First Crisis of Confidence (2002) (23)
Globalization and the Internet : Comparing the Middle eastern and Malaysian experiences (2001) (22)
Lessons from the history of Imperial China (2004) (13)
Theoretical Innovation in Science: The Case of William F. Ogburn (1973) (12)
The Rise of Early Modern Science by Toby E. Huff (2017) (12)
Some Historical Roots of the Ethos of Science (2007) (10)
On the Roads to Modernity -- Conscience, Science and Civilizations. Selected Writings by Benjamin Nelson (1983) (10)
Max Weber & Islam (2018) (9)
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences (1989) (8)
The big shift (2006) (8)
Can scientific knowledge be Islamized (1996) (7)
Science and the public sphere: Comparative institutional development in Islam and the West (1997) (7)
On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part I (1981) (6)
Journal of Classical Sociology (6)
Rethinking islam and fundamentalism (1995) (5)
Freedom of expression in the Muslim world (2005) (5)
Discovery and Explanation in Sociology: Durkheim on Suicide (1975) (4)
Islamic statecraft and the Middle East's delayed modernization (2004) (4)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Introduction (2010) (4)
Reformation in Islam? (2007) (3)
Science and Metaphysics in the Three Religions of the Book (2013) (3)
Science and civilizations east and west (1993) (3)
Is a Theory of Sociocultural Process Possible Without Reference to “Civilizational Complexes”? (1974) (3)
The fourth scientific revolution (1996) (2)
On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part II (1982) (2)
An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800 (2005) (2)
Learned Patriots. Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth –Century Ottoman Empire (2017) (2)
Science and social organization in China (2003) (2)
On Weber, Law, and Universalism: Some Preliminary Considerations (1989) (2)
On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part III (1982) (2)
Education and Ethnicity in Southeastern Massachusetts. Issues in Planning and Policymaking. (1989) (1)
Is American Science Being Challenged? (2013) (1)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Something New under the Sun (2010) (1)
Europe as a Civilization: The Revolution of the Middle Ages & The Rise of the Universities (2013) (1)
Christopher I. Beckwith. Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World. (2013) (1)
Poverties and Triumphs of Chinese Science (2017) (1)
Karl Popper. Anthony O'Hear (1983) (1)
The Sociology of Early Modern Science An Interview with Prof . (2018) (1)
Weberian Sociological Theory.Randall Collins (1987) (1)
Articulating images: The sociology of illusion (1973) (1)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Preface (2010) (1)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Selected References (2010) (1)
Ben-Zaken, Avner. Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560-1660. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 246 pp., hardback, $60.00, ISBN 978 0 80189 476 3. (2011) (1)
Book Review:Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures Helaine Selin (1999) (1)
The Comparative Study of Science (2003) (1)
Max Weber and Methodology of Social Science (2017) (1)
The Big Shift: Science And The Universities In Crisis (2011) (1)
What the West Doesn’t Owe Islam (2009) (1)
Reason, Freedom and Religion: Closing the Gap between the Humanistic and Scientific Study of Religion, by Lorne Dawson. New York: Peter Lang, 1988, vii + 247 pp. $46.95 (1989) (0)
Review essay: Scientific enterprise in Islam (2004) (0)
Letters to the Editor (2010) (0)
Review Essay: Johann P. Arnason, Civlization in Dispute. Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (2009) (0)
Collections (1999) (0)
Book Reviews : Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993. Pp. 402. $29.95 (1996) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Prelude to the Grand Synthesis (2010) (0)
Epilogue: educational reform and attitudes toward science in the Muslim world and China since the eighteenth century (2003) (0)
Science and civilization in China (2003) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: The “Far Seeing Looking Glass” Goes to China (2010) (0)
Letters to the editor (0)
The Iconoclastic Imagination: Benjamin Nelson, a Breaker and Destroyer of Images@@@On the Roads to Modernity: Conscience, Science, and Civilizations: Selected Writings. (1982) (0)
Review of Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (2008) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Revolution in Comparative Perspective (2010) (0)
Information, science and universality (1985) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Science, Literacy, and Economic Development (2010) (0)
Social Differences in Contemporary America. (1990) (0)
Reason and rationality in Islam and the West (2003) (0)
Popularizing the Social Sciences (2006) (0)
The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective, written by William E. Burns (2016) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: The Discovery Machine Goes to the Muslim World (2010) (0)
An Impossible Epistemology (1977) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Inventing the Discovery Machine (2010) (0)
Europe as a Civilisation and the Hidden Structure of Modernity (2020) (0)
Why Some Nations Succeed (2013) (0)
Reply to Johann Arnason's Comments (2017) (0)
Rethinking Civilizational Analysis (review) (2006) (0)
Cultural climates and the ethos of science (2003) (0)
Science and the Public Sphere III in East Asia: Historical Perspectives and Economic Prospects1 (1998) (0)
H. Floris Cohen, The Rise of Modern Science Explained: A Comparative History . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 301. ISBN 978-1-107-54560-1. £18.99 (paperback). (2016) (0)
A Reply to Johann Arnason (2017) (0)
Can Civilization Save Us? A Study in Civilizational Analysis and Legal History (2014) (0)
Winning: How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity, by Rodney Stark. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2014, 455 pp., $27.95, hardbound. (2015) (0)
Books in review (1991) (0)
The Past and The Present, by Lawrence Stone. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, xii + 274 pp. $15.95 (1981) (0)
After and Before Nine-Eleven: A Civilizational Clash, ISCSC 2008 Conference Keynote Address (2009) (0)
The cognitive disunity of mankind (2011) (0)
The Rise of Modern Science (2017) (0)
Infectious Curiosity III (2010) (0)
The European Legal Revolution (2003) (0)
Discovery and Explanation in Sociology: Durkheim on Suicide (1975) (0)
Civilizational Analysis and Paths Not Taken, Part II: The Great Divergence (2017) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: The New Telescopic Evidence (2010) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Three Ideals of Higher Education (2010) (0)
Universities and the Institutionalization of Science (2017) (0)
M. Alper Yalcinkaya. Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth–Century Ottoman Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 315 pages. Cloth US$50.00 ISBN 978-0-22618420-3. (2017) (0)
Epilogue – Science, History, and Development (2017) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: Infectious Curiosity III (2010) (0)
Book Reviews : Weber, the Ideal Type and Contemporary Social Theory. BY SUSAN HEKMAN. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 256. $19.95 (hardcover (1986) (0)
Arabic Science and the Islamic World (2017) (0)
Max Weber, Islam, and Rationalization: A Comparative View (2019) (0)
Education, Examinations, and Neo-Confucianism (2017) (0)
Madrasas, universities, and science (2003) (0)
The Origin of Formalism in Social Science.Jeffrey T. Bergner (1985) (0)
Philosophy, Science, and Civilizational Configurations (2017) (0)
Karl Popper A Centenary Assessment Selected Papers from Karl Popper 2002 (2005) (0)
Islam , the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution By Fjordman (2007) (0)
Book reviews-the rise of early modern science. Islam, china and the west (1998) (0)
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber: Collected Essays.@@@Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber (1990) (0)
Madrasas and the Transmitted Sciences (2017) (0)
Law and Science (2012) (0)
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: The Path to the Grand Synthesis (2010) (0)

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