Andrew J. Newman

Andrew J. Newman is a reader in Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh.
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.
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.
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:)
His work on Safavid Iran won Iran's book of the year prize for 2007 in the category of Iranian Studies.