Marshall Hodgson

Marshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson (April 11, 1922 – June 10, 1968) was an American historian and scholar of Islamic studies, best known for his pioneering work on Islamic civilization and his broader contributions to world history. He taught at the University of Chicago, where he developed an influential yearlong course on Islamic civilizations and later chaired the interdisciplinary Committee on Social Thought.

Hodgson's scholarship, particularly through his posthumously published three-volume work ''The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization'', introduced new interpretive frameworks to understand Islam's global and cultural complexity. He critiqued Eurocentrism and coined the term "Islamicate" to distinguish cultural phenomena associated with Muslim societies from those that are strictly religious. Provided by Wikipedia