Barnaby Rogerson (born 17 May 1960) is a British author,

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and publisher. He has written extensively about the

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, including a biography of the Islamic prophet

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, and numerous travel guides. Rogerson was born in

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, and studied

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. He became a writer of guidebooks, to

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ...

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and

Libya Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya border, the east, Sudan to Libya–Sudan border, the southeast, Chad to Chad–L ...

. He now lives in

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with his wife and business partner, Rose Baring. Together they run Eland Books, a publishing company specialising in reprinting classics of travel writing. He has worked as a lecturer for tour companies such as Martin Randall Travel,

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and Andante, and as a freelance travel writer he has written three hundred articles and reviews for the '' TLS'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' House & Garden'', '' Harpers & Queen'', ''

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'', '' Country Life'' and ''

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''. Rogerson has also appeared as a television presenter, on the

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programme '' Life of Muhammad'', the

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programme ''The Caliph''. and Pilot productions Muslim Empire series.

Books

Rogerson has written books. *''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

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; 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
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