Toby E. Huff, Ph.D.

New School
University, Sociology

Chancellor Professor, Policy Studies, UMass Dartmouth

Email: thuff@umassd.edu

Scholarly Interests

Globalization and the Internet in the Muslim World

Islam, Science and Technology

Science and Technology Policy in
Developing Countries

Field Research in:

Malaysia, Morocco, Syria, Singapore, Tunisia, Indonesia

Recent Publications

"Science and Metaphysics in the Three Religious of the Book."
Intellectual Discourse (A Journal of the Kulliyah (Faculty) of Islamic
Revealed Knowledge and Human Science, International Islamic University Malaysia. vol 8. #2: 173-19.

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“Globalization and the Internet: Comparing the Middle Eastern and Malaysian Experiences.” The Middle East Journal vol. 55 (2001) # 3: 1-20.

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“Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor and Its First Crisis of Confidence. “ Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science. Forthcoming, 2002.

An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800 (Oxford, 2005).

"Freedom of Expression in  the Muslim World,” Society 42 #4 (2005) May/June: 62-69.

“Scientific Enterprise in Islam,” Essay-review on Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I.
Sabra, eds., The Enterprise of Science in Islam. New Perspectives. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003); and  Muzaffar Iqbal,  Islam and Science. (Burlington,  Vt: Ashgate Publications, 2002) in, Science & Public Policy, 31 #1 (2004) Feb: 69- 75.


Review of:

Abdul Karim Soroush, Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam. Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Social Epistemology. Forthcoming, 2001.

Current Research Project

Spyglass: How Ambassadors, Traders, and Jesuits Spread the Telescope Around the World.