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401: 120:"Some of the crucial inventions (notably the famous early trio: gunpowder, the compass, and printing) which had prepared the way for the subsequent Occidental development had come ultimately from China, as did apparently, the idea of a civil service examination system, introduced in the eighteenth century. In such ways the Occident seems to have been the unconscious heir of the abortive industrial revolution of 76:, which The University of Chicago Press, in collaboration with Reuben Smith and other colleagues, published after his death. The work is recognized as a masterpiece that radically reconfigured the academic study of Islam. Hodgson is also recognized for his work on world history, which was rediscovered and subsequently published under the editorship of 148:, as it includes variables more diverse than just industry. Hodgson posited that all the societal elements (industry, banking, health care, police, etc.) of Western European nations became so advanced (or 'technicalized') and co-dependent that those societies were able to determine their own rate of progress. 173:
to refer to characteristics of regions where Muslims, while culturally dominant, were not, properly speaking, “religious”: "'Islamicate' would refer not directly to the religion, Islam, itself, but to the social complex historically associated with Islam and the Muslims, both among Muslims themselves
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and a strict vegetarian. He worked in the Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector from 1943 to 1946. In 1951, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago, where he later became professor, receiving tenure in 1961, becoming chairman of the Committee in Social Thought in 1964 and the
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Hodgson positioned Islam as a spiritual endeavor with a profound moral vision—on par with other world religions. He also reimagined the terminology of Islamic history and religion, coining terms like Islamdom (playing off "Christendom"). Hodgson also resituated the geographical locus of Islam; he
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of his day. Hodgson painted a global picture of world history, in which the "Rise of Europe" was the end-product of millennia-long evolutionary developments in Eurasian society; modernity could conceivably have originated somewhere else. Indeed, he accepted that
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Imperfect and even misleading though it may be, the word "Islamic" is preferable to a neologism such as Hodgson's "Islamicate" (to refer to civilization, where "Islamic" is limited to the religion), which has not been widely
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newly established Committee on Near Eastern Studies in the same year. He was married and had three daughters. Hodgson died in 1968 while jogging on the University of Chicago campus.
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approach. His initial motivation in writing a world history was his desire to place Islamic history in a wider context and his dissatisfaction with the prevailing
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of the fourteenth century . His explanations for the divergence are rooted in the idea of a 'great Western Transmutation.' This is not to be confused with the
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Though he did not publish extensively during his lifetime, he has become arguably the most influential American historian of Islam due to his three-volume
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shifted attention away from an exclusive focus on Arab Islam that had characterized the Euro-American study of the religion to include the
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in the twelfth century was close to an industrial revolution, a development that was derailed, perhaps, by the
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The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizârî Ismâʻîlîs against the Islamic World
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Genius Denied and Reclaimed: A 40-Year Retrospect on Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam
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The two most important influences on Hodgson's thought were the French orientalist and priest
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according to Hodgson. This terminological distinction has not been widely adopted.
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Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire
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and even when found among non-Muslims". For example, wine poetry was
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The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilisation
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The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization
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The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization
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Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History
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Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History
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Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History
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University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
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Guide to the Marshall G. S. Hodgson Papers 1940-1971
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M. G. S. Hodgson
Islamic studies
University of Chicago
Committee on Social Thought
Richmond, Indiana
Quaker
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization
Edmund Burke III
Persianate society
world history
Eurocentrism
Orientalism
China
Mongol onslaught
Sung China
western exceptionalism
Scientific Revolution
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
Louis Massignon
John Woolman
Mouton
The University of Chicago Press
World history
Islamic studies
"HODGSON, MARSHALL GOODWIN SIMMS"
Albert Hourani
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
"Letter of Recommendation: The Life of Marshall Hodgson"
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