"In Islam and World History: The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson, editors Edmund Burke III and Robert J. Mankin have provided a valuable service to the scholarly community by bringing together a series of insightful essays that place the creation of Hodgson’s posthumous masterwork, TheVenture of Islam, into a broader historical and intellectual context. Perhaps most importantly, this slim but comprehensive volume adds greatly to our understanding of Marshall Hodgson himself, a historian who famously argued for the importance of recognizing the scholarly pre-commitments of academics, by providing a remarkable biographical context in which to consider the deeper implications of his work."

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences

“In our age of Islamophobia and renewed racialist and religious nationalisms, nothing could be more important than Marshall Hodgson’s humanist and universalist vision, exemplified in his Venture of Islam. These essential essays on Hodgson stand as almost unique in exploring the life and thought of a major American thinker on Islam and Muslim civilization, and they will be indispensable to anyone concerned with world history.”

Juan Cole, University of Michigan

“Burke has done more than any other scholar to preserve and project the legacy of Hodgson as both Islamic and world historian over the decades. This new collection of essays will add to the luster of Hodgson’s earlier volumes, sparking renewed interest and intense debate about the nature of his stature as a global historian of the Islamic world.”

Bruce Lawrence, Duke University