R. Stephen Humphreys

{{Short description|American historian}}

{{similar names|Steven Humphries (disambiguation){{!}}Steven Humphries}}

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| name = R. Stephen Humphreys

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| nationality = American

| occupation = Historian, professor

| years_active = 1969-present

| education = PhD

| alma_mater = University of Michigan (PhD)

| known_for = History of Southwest Asia and North Africa

| notable_works = Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age, From Saladin to the Mongols, Mu'awiya ibn abi Sufyan: From Arabia to Empire

| title = 'Abd al-Aziz al-Sa'ud Professor Emeritus

| employer = University of California, Santa Barbara

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R. Stephen Humphreys is an American historian specializing in the history of Southwest Asia and North Africa. He was the 'Abd al-Aziz al-Sa'ud Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is now an emeritus professor at that institution.

Humphreys received a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1969.

Humphreys' Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age has been widely reviewed and cited as a good introductory work on the region.{{cite journal |last1=Rubin |first1=Barry |title=Book Review: R. Stephen Humphreys, Between Memory and Desire : The Middle East in a Troubled Age (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999, 272 pp., $29.95 hbk.) |journal=Millennium: Journal of International Studies |date=2016 |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=785–787 |doi=10.1177/03058298990280030438}} He has also written a history of the Ayyubids, From Saladin to the Mongols (1977), and a biography of the first Umayyad caliph, Mu'awiya I, Mu'awiya ibn abi Sufyan: From Arabia to Empire (2006).

A festschrift was published in Humphreys' honor by the Darwin Press based on lectures given at a conference at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota.{{cite web |title=Historical Dimensions of Islam |url=http://www.darwinpress.com/books/Historical%20Dimensions%20(978-0-87850-190-8)/main.html |website=Darwin Press |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208161941/http://www.darwinpress.com/books/Historical%20Dimensions%20(978-0-87850-190-8)/main.html |archivedate=8 February 2017}}{{cite book |title=Historical Dimensions of Islam: Pre-modern and Modern Periods |editor1-last=Lindsay

|editor1-first=James E. |editor2-last=Armajani |editor2-first=Jon |publisher=Darwin Press |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-87850-190-8}}