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About Michael G. Morony
- Michael Gregory Morony (born September 30, 1939) has been a professor of history at UCLA since 1974, with interests in the history of Ancient and Islamic Near East.Morony was born in 1939 in Sacramento.
- He holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Islamic Studies and a PhD (1972) in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.
- His dissertation, originally advised by Gustave von Grunebaum, was concerned with the history of Mesopotamia after the Islamic Conquests.
- The edited dissertation was later published as Iraq After the Muslim Conquest.
- Upon von Grunebaum's death, his dissertation was supervised by Nikki Keddie.
- In addition to these scholars, Morony has also worked with W.
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- Shaban.Morony's research is mostly concerned with the economic history of the Near East, North Africa and Muslim Spain.
- He has written many articles on the subject and is considered one of the authorities on the socio-economic history of the region in the pre-modern period.
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