A. C. S. Peacock

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.

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

  1. ^ "A. C. S. Peacock". Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Research portal > Researchers > Andrew Charles Spencer Peacock". University of St. Andrews. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Fellows Directory > Prof Andrew Peacock". The Society of Antiquaries. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Winners > Arab Culture in Other Languages 2025 > Andrew Peacock". Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  5. ^ Mancini-Lander, Derek J. (January 2016). "A.C.S. Peacock, Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Balʿamī's Tārīkhnāma". Der Islam. 93 (2). doi:10.1515/islam-2016-0048.
  6. ^ Kastritsis, Dimitris J. (2011). "The Frontiers of the Ottoman World". Journal of Arabian Studies. 1 (2): 270–272. doi:10.1080/21534764.2011.628501. S2CID 177329499.
  7. ^ Imber, Colin (2010). "Reviewed Work: The Frontiers of the Ottoman World. (Proceedings of the British Academy) by A. C. S. PEACOCK". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 73 (3): 540–541. doi:10.1017/s0041977x10000492. JSTOR 40963332. S2CID 161277320.
  8. ^ Woodhead, Christine (June 2011). "The Frontiers of the Ottoman World by A.C.S. Peacock". The English Historical Review. 126 (520): 681–683. doi:10.1093/ehr/cer120. JSTOR 41238744.
  9. ^ Lane, George (2011). "Andrew C. S. Peacock: Early Seljūq History: A New Interpretation (Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey)" (PDF). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 74 (2): 326–328. doi:10.1017/s0041977x11000188. JSTOR 41287963. S2CID 163140569.
  10. ^ Bosworth, C. Edmund (October 2012), "Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation By A. C. S. Peacock", Journal of Islamic Studies, 24 (1): 86–88, doi:10.1093/jis/ets082
  11. ^ Malagaris, George (2016). "The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East Edited by A. C. S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız". Journal of Islamic Studies. 27 (2): 235–237. doi:10.1093/jis/etv109.
  12. ^ Lindner, Rudi Paul (2013). "The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East by A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, editors". Bustan: The Middle East Book Review. 4 (2): 190–195. doi:10.1163/18785328-13040212.
  13. ^ Leiser, Gary (2016), "The Great Seljuk Empire by A. C. S. Peacock", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 136 (4): 850, doi:10.7817/jameroriesoci.136.4.0850
  14. ^ Morton, Nicholas (January 2016), "The Great Seljuk Empire (The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires)", Al-Masāq, 28 (1): 92–94, doi:10.1080/09503110.2016.1152816, S2CID 163424896
  15. ^ Paul, Jürgen (September 2015), "The Great Seljuk Empire by Andrew C. S. Peacock", Journal of Islamic Studies etv085, doi:10.1093/jis/etv085
  16. ^ Fleet, Kate (July 2016), "The Great Seljuk Empire, by A.C.S. Peacock", The English Historical Review, 131 (551): 884–886, doi:10.1093/ehr/cew140
  17. ^ Floor, Willem (March 2018), "A.C.S. Peacock, The Great Seljuk Empire", Der Islam, 95 (1): 247–249, doi:10.1515/islam-2018-0020
  18. ^ Michel, Thomas (2016). "Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 27 (4): 520–522. doi:10.1080/09596410.2016.1186356. S2CID 147865361.
  19. ^ D'Alton, John (2016), "The Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation eds. by A. C. S. Peacock and D. G. Tor", Parergon, 33 (1): 239–240, doi:10.1353/pgn.2016.0070, S2CID 152079713
  20. ^ Morton, Nicholas (2017). "Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs". Al-Masāq. 29 (1): 88–89. doi:10.1080/09503110.2016.1275631. S2CID 164719707.
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