R. Stephen Humphreys

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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.

R. Stephen Humphreys
Nationality	American
Education	PhD
Alma mater	University of Michigan (PhD)
Occupation(s)	Historian, professor
Years active	1969-present
Employer	University of California, Santa Barbara
Known for	History of Southwest Asia and North Africa
Notable work	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

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.^[1] 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.^[2][3]