Andrew Charles Spencer Peacock FBA is a British historian and author. He specializes in the histories of the

Seljuk Empire The Great Seljuk Empire, or the Seljuk Empire was a high medieval, culturally Turko-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, founded and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. It spanned a total area of from Anatolia and the Levant in the west to ...

and

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

Life

He was born and raised in Hampshire, England. He completed his PhD in Oriental Studies at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

Career

He is currently a professor of history at the

University of St. Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...

. Peacock is a fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soci ...

and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Bibliography

His books include: *''Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah''; Routledge (2007) *''The Frontiers of the Ottoman World'' (ed.); Oxford University Press for the British Academy (2009) *''Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation''; Routledge (2010) *''The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East'' (ed. with Sara Nur Yıldız); I.B. Tauris (2013) *''The Great Seljuk Empire''; The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires, Edinburgh University Press (2015) *''Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia'' (ed. with Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yıldız); Ashgate Publishing (2015) *''Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation'' (ed. with D. G. Tor); I.B. Tauris (2015) *''Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs'' (with Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit, and Martina Rugiadi); Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016)

References

External links

University of St. Andrews

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peacock, A. C. S. English historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Scholars of Ottoman history Academics of the University of St Andrews English orientalists