Justin Marozzi (born 1970) is an English journalist, historian and travel writer. [1]
Marozzi was a pupil at The King's School, Canterbury and then studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. [1] He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1993 with a starred double first. [2] He spent a year studying broadcast journalism at Cardiff University before winning a Thouron Award in 1994 to study for a Master's degree in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] [1]
As a journalist, he worked for the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist . [2] He also writes for The Spectator . [3]
Marozzi's publications include: South from Barbary (2001), an account of his travels on camel through the Libyan Sahara; Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (2004), a biography of the Mongol conquerorTimur; Faces of Exploration (2006), an account of famous 20th century explorers; The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus (2008), a biography of the world's first historian; Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (2014); Islamic Empires - Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization (2019); [1] A Thousand Golden Cities: 2,500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and its People (2023); [4] and Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World (2025). [5]
Marozzi is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and, since 2021, of the Royal Society of Literature. [2] [6] He lives in Norfolk with his wife Julia and rescue dog. [6] His interests include deer stalking and classic Bristol Cars. [1]
