Andrew J. Newman holds the chair of

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and

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at the

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Education and career

Newman majored in history at

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, graduating

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. He went to the

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for graduate study in Islamic studies, and earned his Ph.D. there. After postdoctoral research at

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, 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.

Books

Newman's books include: * ''The Formative Period of Twelver Shī'ism: Hadīth as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad'' (2000) * ''Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire'' (2006) *''Twelver Shiism: Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722'' (2013) His work on

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won Iran's Book of the Year Awards for 2007 in the category of

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References

External links

Profile at University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Edinburgh British Islamic studies scholars Dartmouth College alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Iranologists {{UK-academic-bio-stub