Andrew J. Newman

Phone0131 650 4178
Emaila.newmaned.acuk
Websitehttps://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/andrew-j-newman

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the history of Twelver Shi'ism the history of Islamic law hadith studies the evolution of the legal bases of Islamic medical theory and practice the history of Iran classical, medieval and modern Middle Eastern history and culture Persian language and literature modern Arabic literature

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2024

‘Scattered pockets of believers’: The Ijāzāt of al-Talla`ukbarī’ (d. 385/995)
Newman, A. J., 16 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) Commemorative Volume for Prof Mansur Sefatgol of Tehran University. Tehran
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2023

A network of Safavid Shī` ī scholars? The Ijāzāt of Shaykh Bahā’ al-Dīn al-`Āmilī
Newman, A. J., 10 Mar 2023, (Accepted/In press) Volume d'hommage à Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi . Brepols
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2022

A view from the periphery: The ijāza as polemic in early 10th/16th Twelver Shī`ism
Newman, A. J., 20 Oct 2022, The Renaissance of Shiʿi Islam: Facets of Thought and Practice. Daftary, F. & Esots, J. (eds.). I.B. Tauris Publishers, p. 271-302 (Shi'i Heritage ; vol. 9).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Iranian/Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction: Recovering Lost Voices
Newman, A. J. (ed.), 24 May 2022, Berlin: Gerlach Press. 268 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Preface
Newman, A. J., 24 May 2022, Iranian/Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction: Recovering Lost Voices . Newman, A. J. (ed.). Berlin: Gerlach Press, p. vii - xxiv 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2021

The idea of Baqer al-Majlesi as ‘the idea of Iran: The Safavid era'
Newman, A. J., 25 Feb 2021, Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires. Melville, C. (ed.). I.B. Tauris Publishers, p. 157-184 (The Idea of Iran; vol. 10).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2020
Sufism and the Safavids in Iran: A further challenge to ‘decline'
Newman, A. J., 10 Aug 2020, Routledge Handbook on Sufism. Ridgeon, L. (ed.). 1 ed. London: Routledge, p. 370-386 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Glimpses into late-Safawid spiritual discourse: An ‘Akhbārī’ critique of Sufism and philosophy
Newman, A., 29 Jun 2020, Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World. Tabandeh, R. & Lewisohn, L. (eds.). Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California at Irvine:, p. 259-307
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2019
The limits of “Orthodoxy”? Notes on the Anti-Abū Muslim polemic of early 11th/17th century Iran
Newman, A., 26 Dec 2019, Shi'i Islam and Sufism: Classical Views and Modern Perspectives. Hermann, D. & Terrier, M. (eds.). London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, p. 65-122 58 p. (Shi'i Heritage Series; vol. 7).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
2018
Of mullas, manuscripts and migration: Aspects of Twelver Shi`i community life in the 18th century
Newman, A., 19 Jul 2018, Crisis, Collapse, Militarism and Civil War: The History and Historiography of 18th Century Iran. Axworthy, M. (ed.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
2015
‘Great men’, ‘decline’ and empire: Safavid studies and a way forward
Newman, A., 1 Dec 2015, In: Medieval Worlds. 2, p. 45-58 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Legal traditions
Newman, A., 30 Sept 2015, The Shi`i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity. Daftary, F., Sajoo, A. B. & Jiwa, S. (eds.). London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, p. 78-93 13 p. 4
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2014

Minority Reports: Twelver Shi`i Disputation and Authority the Buyid Period
Newman, A. J., 2014, The Study of Shi'i Islam: History, Theology and Law. I.B. Tauris Publishers
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
2013

Twelver Shi`ism: Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722
Newman, A. J., Nov 2013, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2012

The Recovery of the Past: Ibn Babawayh, Baqir al-Majlisi and Safavid Medical Discourse
Newman, A. J., 2012, In: Iran. 50, p. 109-127 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2011

‘Monolithic or dynamic: The Safavid court and the Subaltern in the late seventeenth century’
Newman, A. J., 2011, Court Cultures in the Muslim World, Seventh to nineteenth centuries. Hartung, J. P. (ed.). Routledge, p. 185-201 16 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
‘Safavids and “Subalterns”: The Reclaiming of Voices’
Newman, A. J., 2011, Fortresses of Intellect: Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary . Ali-de-Unzaga, O. (ed.). London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, p. 477-94 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2010

Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia, II: Al-Ḥurr al-`Amilī (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghinā’
Newman, A. J., 2010, Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand . Suleiman, Y. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 192-207 15 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbari Shii School
Newman, A. J., 2010, In: Journal of Semitic Studies. 55, 2, p. 616-618 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
2009

Bāqir al-Majlisī and Islamicate Medicine II: al-Risāla al-dhahabiyya in Biḥār al-anwār’
Newman, A. J., 2009, Le Shī`isme Imāmite Quarante Ans Après . Amir-Moezzi, M. A., Bar-Asher, M. M. & Hopkins, S. (eds.). Turnhot: Brepols, p. 349-361
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
2006

Safavid Iran: rebirth of a Persian empire
Newman, A., 2006, London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. 281 p. (Library of Middle East history; vol. v. 5)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
‘The Vezir and the Mulla: a late Safavid period debate on Friday prayer’
Newman, A. J., 2006, ., Études sur L’Iran Médiéval et Moderne Offertes à Jean Calmard: Eurasian Studies. Bernardini, M. (ed.). Vol. 1-2. p. 237-69 32 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2005

‘Anti-Akhbari Sentiments among the Qajar `Ulama: The Case of Muhammad Baqir al-Khwansarid. 1313/1895)’
Newman, A. J., 2005, Religion and Society in Qajar Iran. Gleave, R. (ed.). Routledge, p. 155-73 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2003

Between Qumm and the West: the occultation according to al-Kulaynī and al-Nuʻmānī
Newman, A., 2003, Culture and memory in medieval Islam. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, p. 94-108 14 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other chapter contribution
Society and culture in the early modern Middle East: studies on Iran in the Safavid period
Newman, A. (ed.), 2003, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 419 p. (Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts; vol. v. 46)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
‘Baqir al-Majlisi and Islamicate Medicine: Safavid Medical Theory and Practice Re-examined’
Newman, A. J., 2003, Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East, Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period . Newman, A. J. (ed.). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, p. 371-96 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2000

The formative period of Twelver Shīʻism: Ḥadīth as discourse between Qum and Baghdad
Newman, A., 2000, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. 222 p. (Culture and civilisation in the Middle East)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
‘Fayd al-Kashani and the Rejection of the Clergy/State Alliance: Friday Prayer as Politics in the Safavid Period’
Newman, A. J., 2000, The Most Learned of the Shi’a. Walbridge, L. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 34-52 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1999

‘Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia: Arguments Over the Permissibility of Singing (Ghina)’
Newman, A. J., 1999, The Heritage of Sufism, Vol. III: Late Classical Persianate Sufism: the Safavid and Mughal Period (1501-1750), . Lewisohn, L. (ed.). Oneworld, p. 135-64 29 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
‘Sufism and Anti-Sufism in Safavid Iran: The Authorship of the “Hadiqat al-Shi’a” Revisited’
Newman, A. J., 1999, In: Iran. XXXVII, p. 95-108 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
‘The Role of the Sadat in Safavid Iran: Confrontation or Accommodation?’
Newman, A. J., 1999, In: Oriento Moderno. XVIII (LXXIX) NS, ii, p. 577-96 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1998

‘ “Tashrih-e Mansuri”: Human Anatomy Between the Galenic and Prophetic Medical Traditions’
Newman, A. J., 1998, La Science dans le Monde Iranien. Tehran: Institut Francais de Recherche en Iran, p. 253-71 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1993

‘The Myth of the Clerical Migration to Safawid Iran: Arab Shi’ite Opposition to Ali al-Karaki and Safawid Shi’ism’
Newman, A. J., 1993, In: Die Welt des Islams. 33, p. 66-112 46 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1992

‘The Nature of the Akhbari/Usuli Dispute in Late-Safawid Iran. Part One: Abdallah al-Samahiji’s “Munyat al-Mumirisin”
Newman, A. J., 1992, In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 55, i, p. 22-51 29 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
‘The Nature of the Akhbari/Usuli in Late-Safawid Iran. Part Two: The Conflict Reassessed’,
Newman, A. J., 1992, In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 55, ii, p. 250-61 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1991

Islamic medical wisdom: the Ṭibb al-aʼimma
Ispahany, B. (Translator) & Newman, A. (ed.), 1991, London: Muhammadi Trust. 219 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
1986

‘Towards a Reconsideration of the Isfahan School of Philosophy: Shaykh Baha’i and the Role of the Safawid Ulama’
Newman, A. J., 1986, In: Studia Iranica. 15, 2, p. 165-99 34 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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