Andrew Peacock

United Kingdom

Andrew Peacock is Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews in the UK. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where he studied Arabic and Persian, and subsequently held positions in Cambridge, Ankara, Istanbul and Kuala Lumpur. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022 and has published five monographs and 15 edited volumes on premodern history of the Islamic world, its intellectual culture and its manuscripts. His most notable publications include ‘The Great Seljuk Empire’ on the history of the Middle East in the period of Turkish domination in the 11th and 12th centuries, which is the first scholarly study in a western language of this major dynasty. Another notable work is ‘Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia’, which examines the process of Islamisation in 13th and 14th century Anatolia, drawing on numerous unstudied and unknown manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish.

About The Book

The book offers a scientific study shedding light on the spread of Arabic language and culture in southeast Asia, and its relation to Sufi philosophy and the official discourses of rulers in that region. It opens up new areas of research into the impact of Arab culture beyond its traditional context, making it an invaluable source for researchers in this field.

Published: 2024