Andrew J. Newman

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Andrew J. Newman holds the chair of Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh.

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Education and career

Newman majored in history at Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude. He went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study in Islamic studies, and earned his Ph.D. there. After postdoctoral research at Green Templeton College, Oxford, affiliated with Oxford's Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, he joined the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. [1]

Books

Newman's books include:

His work on Safavid Iran won Iran's Book of the Year Awards for 2007 in the category of Iranian Studies. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Newman, Andrew J. "Dr Andrew J Newman". The University of Edinburgh . Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  2. ↑ Reviews of The Formative Period of Twelver Shī'ism:
  3. ↑ Reviews of Safavid Iran:
  4. ↑ Reviews of Twelver Shiism:
  5. ↑ "Winners of Iran's Book of the Year Awards announced". Tehran Times . 8 February 2008. Archived from the original on 29 April 2019.


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