Short answers, pulled from the story.
Marshall Hodgson died on the 10th of June 1968 while jogging on the University of Chicago campus. His sudden death cut short a career that had already begun to reshape how the world understood Islamic civilization.
Marshall Hodgson was born on the 11th of April 1922 in Richmond, Indiana. He entered the world into a family of practicing Quakers who instilled in him a vegetarian lifestyle and a deep-seated commitment to pacifism.
Marshall Hodgson served as a conscientious objector within the Civilian Public Service from 1943 to 1946. He did not enlist in the military but instead chose to align his life with the ethical strictures of his upbringing while pursuing intellectual tools to understand global conflicts.
Marshall Hodgson introduced the term Islamicate to describe elements of culture historically associated with Muslim societies but not necessarily religious in nature. For example, wine poetry was categorized as Islamicate because it flourished within an Islamic cultural sphere even if it conflicted with Islamic moral norms.
Marshall Hodgson's three-volume work The Venture of Islam was edited and prepared for publication by colleagues notably Reuben Smith. This massive undertaking sought to situate Islam within a global historical narrative and challenge Eurocentric assumptions.
The papers of Marshall Hodgson including teaching materials personal notes and correspondence are housed at the University of Chicago Library's Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. These archives preserve the intellectual labor of a man who died suddenly in 1968 while jogging on campus.