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).
↑ Rubin, Barry (2016). "Book Review: R. Stephen Humphreys, Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999, 272 pp., $29.95 hbk.)". Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 28 (3): 785–787. doi:10.1177/03058298990280030438.
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