Barnaby Rogerson

Barnaby Rogerson (born 17 May 1960) is a British author, television presenter and publisher. He has written extensively about the Muslim world, including a biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, ^{[1] [2]} and numerous travel guides.

Rogerson was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and studied Medieval History at St Andrews University. He became a writer of guidebooks, to Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, Istanbul and Libya. He now lives in London with his wife and business partner, Rose Baring. Together they run Eland Books, a publishing company specialising in reprinting classics of travel writing. ^[3]

He has worked as a lecturer for tour companies such as Martin Randall Travel, ^[4] Eastern Approaches and Andante, and as a freelance travel writer he has written three hundred articles and reviews for the TLS , Guardian , Independent , House & Garden , Harpers & Queen , Cornucopia , Country Life and the Daily Telegraph . ^[5]

Rogerson has also appeared as a television presenter, on the BBC programme Life of Muhammad , ^[6] the Al Jazeera programme The Caliph. ^[7] and Pilot productions Muslim Empire series.

Books

Rogerson has written books. ^[8]

• The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East - Pegasus Books, 2024
• The Prophet Muhammad: How Islam was Born: All you Need to Know series - Connell Guides, 2018
• In Search of Ancient North Africa: A History in Six Lives - Haus Publishing, 2017
• Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World - Profile, 2013
• The Last Crusaders: East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World, 1415-1578 - Little, Brown 2009
• Southern Frontiers - a photographic book by Don McCullin; text written by Barnaby Rogerson - Jonathan Cape, 2010
• Heirs of the Prophet and the roots of the Sunni-Shia schism - Little, Brown, 2006
• The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography - Little, Brown, 2003
• A Traveller’s History of North Africa - Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2008; US Interlink, 2001; Windrush Press/Orion, 1998
• Marrakesh, through Writers' Eyes (editor), Eland, 2006
• Meetings with Remarkable Muslims (editor, with Rose Baring), Eland, 2005
• Morocco (guidebook) - Cadogan, 1989, updated editions 1994, 1998, 2000 and 2004
• Cyprus (guidebook) - Cadogan, 1994
• Tunisia - Cadogan 1992, updated edition in 1998
• Desert Air: A collection of the Poetry of Place: of Arabia, Deserts and the Orient of the Imagination (editor), Eland Books, 2007, 2001
• London, the Poetry of Place (editor), Eland Books, 2003

External links

Personal website: http://www.barnabyrogerson.com

1. Guppy, Shusha (17 March 2003). "The Prophet Muhammad: a biography by Barnaby Rogerson". The Independent. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
2. Webster, Jason (22 February 2003). "With the Immediacy of Yesterday". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
3. "Barnaby Rogerson". The Clerkenwell Post. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
4. "Barnaby Rogerson". Martin Randall Travel. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
5. "About Barnaby Rogerson". barnabyrogerson.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
6. "The Life of Muhammad". BBC Two.
7. "The Caliph". interactive.aljazeera.com.
8. "Books". barnabyrogerson.com. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2016.