Modern Islam: The Search for Cultural Identity

by Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

303 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1983

About the author

Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum (1 September 1909 in Vienna Austria – 27 February 1972 in Los Angeles USA, born Gustav Edmund Ritter von Grünebaum) was an Austrian historian and Arabist.

Gustave had a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna. When Nazi Germany absorbed Austria in the Anschluss of 1938, he went to the United States, where he got a position at the Asia Institute in New York under Arthur Upham Pope. In 1943, he went on to the University of California, and was made professor of Arabic in 1949. In 1957, he became professor of Near Eastern History and the director of a new department called the Near Eastern Center.

Gustave was married to Giselle Steuerman.

Reviews

[Kenneth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Assigned reading for a course I took my senior year in college dealing with the history of India and the Middle East since 1500. I skimmed it then, but afterwards read it through more thoroughly since I was intrigued by the subject. The book's chapters were all published originally as separate articles in various scholarly publications. Together, they give a portrait of the Muslim world as it was in the early 1960's, which still has relevance for understanding where the Middle East is today.

[Belle Meade School]

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