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The Rise of Early Modern Science : Islam, China and the West
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (2003)
Author: Toby E. Huff
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Best on subject
Huff sees science as a social practice which cannot flourish without a social niche for the person who would investigate nature, and covers a long span of history looking at the ways societies create or fail to create those social roles. I have read a good many books on this subject, and Huff's is the most fair-minded, cogent and satisfying. Recommend highly.


Max Weber & Islam
Published in Hardcover by Transaction Pub (1999)
Authors: Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter
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informative essays on Weber and Islam
This is an informative set of essays by scholars who might be described as "Orientalists" or "neo-Orientalists" on Weber and Islam, bringing useful balance to Bryan Turner's 1974 work. Almost half of the book is taken up by Huff's introductory essay and Schlucter's essay "Hindrances to Modernity: Max Weber and Islam." The remaining contributions tend to be relatively brief. Crone on law and the rise of capitalism is among the better; several essays (Peters, Metcalf, and Cook) touch on the presence or absence of dissenting movements within Islam that might or might not play a role similar to that ascribed by Weber to Calvinism in the rise of capitalism in Western Europe.


Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Published in Paperback by Transaction Pub (1984)
Author: Toby E. Huff
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