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Toby Huff

Huff’s sociological approach to the European development, its legal transformation, along with the rise of the universities and modern science has been incorporated in several mainstream history texts.^[7]

Career and contributions[edit]

Huff earned a B.A. from Northeastern University and a Master's from Northwestern University. He completed a Ph.D. from The New School For Social Research in 1971, where he was mentored by Benjamin Nelson.^[8] He completed a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley working with Robert Bellah, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced StudyinPrinceton, New Jersey from 1978–79.

Huff has been a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore, the University of Malaya, and the Max Weber College in Erfurt, Germany. He taught sociology for thirty-four years at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth before becoming chancellor professor emeritus in 2005. Since then he has been a research associate in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University.^[2]

Publications[edit]

• On the Roads to Modernity. Conscience, Science, and Civilizations, Selected writings of Benjamin Nelson (1981)
• Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences (1 ed.). Transaction Publishers. 1984. ISBN 978-0878559459.
• Huff, Toby E. (2017). The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107571075.
• Max Weber and Islam. Transaction Publishers. 1999. ISBN 978-1560004004. Co-authored with Wolfgang Schluchter.
• Huff, Toby (2007). Abattouy, Mohammad (ed.). "Understanding the Place of Science in Islamic Civilization". In les Sciences dans les Sociétés Islamiques. abdul-AzizFondation du Roi: 101–120. doi:10.13140/2.1.4152.8322.
• An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0195177244.
• Jarvie, Ian; Mitford, Karl; Miller, David, eds. (2006). "The Open Society, Metaphysical Beliefs, and Platonic Sources of Reason and Rationality". Karl Popper. A Centenary Assessment. 2: 19–44. ISBN 978-1848901919.
• “Some Historical Roots of the Ethos of Science,” Journal of Classical Sociology, 7/2 (2007)
• Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution. A Global Perspective. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-17052-9.
• Huff, Toby (2022). “Max Weber’s Comparative and Historical Sociology of Law: The Developmental Conditions of Law.” In The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber, edited by Alan Sica. London: Routledge, pp. 339-352.
• Huff, Toby (2020). "Europe as a Civilization and the Hidden Structure of Modernity.” In European Integration. Historical Trajectories, Geopolitical Costs, edited by Johann P. Arnason (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), pp. 14-33.

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Further reading[edit]

• Crombie, Alistair C. "The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West. By TOBY E. HUFF. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv, 409 pp. $54.95." The Journal of Asian Studies 53.4 (1994): 1213-1215.