Michael Gregory Morony (born September 30, 1939) has been a professor of history at

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since 1974, with interests in the history of

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and

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Near East.Michael G. Morony faculty webpage
G. Morony, Short Biography
/ref> Morony was born in 1939 in Sacramento and was raised in Alaska. He holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages from the

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, and an MA in Islamic Studies and a PhD (1972) in History from the

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. His dissertation, originally advised by

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, 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

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. In addition to these scholars, Morony has also worked with

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in Berkeley and M. A. Shaban. Morony's research is mostly concerned with the

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of the Near East,

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and

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. He has written many articles on the subject and is considered one of the authorities on the socio-economic history of the region in the pre-modern period. Among the scholars who Morony served on the Ph.D. advisory committees of was

Daniel C. Peterson Daniel Carl Peterson (born January 15, 1953) is a former professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University (BYU). Background A native of southern California, Peterson receiv ...

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, and

Touraj Daryaee Touraj Daryaee ( fa, تورج دریایی; born 1967) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian. He currently works as the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the ...

Works

* * Reprint (Piscataway,

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, 2009). * The History of al-Tabari, Vol. XVIII, "Between Civil Wars: The Caliphate of Mu'awiyah" (Albany, SUNY Press, 1987), translation * * *
"Production and the Exploitation of Resources"
Series : The Formation of the Classical Islamic World: 11, (Andershot,

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, 2002), (ed.)
"Manufacturing and Labour"
Series : The Formation of the Classical Islamic World: 12, (Andershot, Ashgate/Variorum, 2003), (ed.) * * *

References

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