Andrew Charles Spencer Peacock FSA FBA is a British scholar and author. He specializes in the history, intellectual culture and manuscripts of the classical and early modern Islamic world.

Contents

• Life
• Career
• Bibliography
• References
• External links

Life

He was born in 1976 and raised in Hampshire, England. After an undergraduate degree at St John's College Oxford, he completed his PhD in Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. ^[1]

Career

He is currently a professor of history at the University of St. Andrews. ^[2] Peacock is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. ^[3]

In 2025 he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. ^[4]

Bibliography

His books include:

• Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Brill (2024)
• Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Bal'ami's Tarikhnamah; Routledge (2007) ^[5]
• The Frontiers of the Ottoman World (ed.); Oxford University Press for the British Academy (2009) ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation; Routledge (2010) ^{[9] [10]}
• The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (ed. with Sara Nur Yıldız); I.B. Tauris (2013) ^{[11] [12]}
• The Great Seljuk Empire; The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires, Edinburgh University Press (2015) ^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}
• Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia (ed. with Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yıldız); Ashgate Publishing (2015) ^[18]
• Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation (ed. with D. G. Tor); I.B. Tauris (2015) ^[19]
• Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs (with Sheila R. Canby, Deniz Beyazit, and Martina Rugiadi); Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016) ^[20]
• Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World (ed.); Bloomsbury Publishing (2025)

References

External links

• University of St. Andrews
• Edinburgh University Press