Andrew J. Newman

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Andrew J. Newman is a reader at the University of Edinburgh. He holds the chair of Islamic Studies and Persian.

Education[]

Newman holds a BA in History from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude, as well as a MA and Phd in Islamic Studies from UCLA.^[1]

Professor Newman holds a BA in History, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, and an MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Career[]

He joined IMES in 1996, having been a Research Fellow at both the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford and Green College, Oxford, whilst researching topics in the history of Islamic medicine.

As well as a large number of academic articles on Islamic Studies and Persian History, he has authored two books: The Formative Period of Shi'i Law: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad (2000) and Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire (2006). (Reviews:^[2][3])

His work on Safavid Iran won Iran's book of the year prize for 2007 in the category of Iranian Studies.^[4]

References[]

External links[]

• Profile at University of Edinburgh

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