Dr Andrew Peacock
Dr Andrew Peacock

Dr Andrew Peacock

MA.,(Oxon), MPhil., PhD (Cantab) - Lecturer

 
Contact Details

E-mail - acsp@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463083
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Medieval and early modern Middle Eastern and Islamic history, especially the history of Iran, Anatolia, the Caucasus and Central Asia up to the seventeenth century; Arabic and Persian historiography and manuscripts; history of the Indian Ocean region.

 

Main Publications

Monographs

  • Early Seljuq History: a new interpretation, London: Routledge (Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey) (2010), xi+190pp. ISNB: 9780415548533.
  • Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Bal‘ami’s Tarikhnama, London: Routledge (Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey) (2007), xiv+210pp. ISBN: 97804154002

Edited volumes

  • (with Sara Nur Yildiz) The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East, London: I.B. Tauris (2013). ISBN: 978-1848858879
  • The Frontiers of the Ottoman World, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Proceedings of the British Academy, 156) (2009), xxiv+593pp. ISBN: 9780197264423

Articles and book chapters

  • "The Ottomans and the Funj sultanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 75 (2012): 87-111.
  • "Suakin: a northeast African port in the Ottoman empire", Northeast African Studies 12/i (2012): 29-50.
  • "Early Persian historians and the heritage of pre-Islamic Iran" in Edmund Herzig and Sarah Stewart, The Idea of Iran, vol 5, Early Islamic Iran, London: I.B. Tauris (2011): 64-80.
  • “Seljuq legitimacy in Islamic history” in Christian Lange and Songul Mecit (eds), The Seljuqs:  Politics, Society and Culture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2011): 79-95.
  • [with I.H. Kadi and Annabel Teh Gallop] “Writing history: the Acehnese embassy to Istanbul, 1849-1852” in R. Michael Feener, Patrick Daly and Anthony Reid (eds), Mapping the Acehnese Past, Leiden: KITLV (2011): 163-181, 259-278.
  • “Sinop: a frontier city in Seljuq and Mongol Anatolia”, Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 16 (2010): 103-124.
  • [with D. Peacock] “The enigma of ‘Aydhab: a medieval Islamic port on the Red Sea coast”, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 37/i (2008): 32-48.
  • “‘Utbi’s al-Yamini: patronage, composition and reception”, Arabica 54/iv (2007): 500-525
  • “Black Sea trade and the Islamic world down to the Mongol period” in G. Erkut and S. Mitchell (eds.), The Black Sea: Past, Present and Future, London and Istanbul: British Institute at Ankara and Istanbul Technical University (2007): 65-72.
  • “The Saljuq campaign against the Crimea and the expansionist policy of the early reign of ‘Ala’ al-Din Kayqubad”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3rd series, 16/ii (2006): 133-149.
  • “Georgia and the Anatolian Turks in the 12th and 13th centuries”, Anatolian Studies 56 (2006): 127-146.
  • “Nomadic society and the Seljuq campaigns in Caucasia”, Iran and the Caucasus 9/ii (2005): 205-230.
  • “Ahmad of Niğde’s al-Walad al-Shafiq and the Seljuk past”, Anatolian Studies 54 (2004): 95-107.

Teaching Duties

Offers the following Honours courses:

The Formation of Islamic Iran: from the Arab conquests to the Seljuq Empire (600-1200)
Nomadic Heritage and Persianate Culture: the Iranian world from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370-1722)

 

Research Projects

Dr Peacock is Principal Investigator of two major externally funded research projects, Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean (co-director with Dr Annabel Teh Gallop), funded by the British Academy over 2009-2012 (www.ottomansoutheastasia.org); and The Islamisation of Anatolia, c. 1100-1500, funded by the European Research Council over 2012-2016.

 

Main Publications