Dr Andrew Peacock is Assistant Director of the BIAA. He is Monographs Editor, Chairman of the Publications Committee and is responsible for Institute research in areas outside archaeology. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford and Pembroke College, Cambridge and subsequently held research fellowships at the BIAA and Cambridge. His research focuses on Islamic history, historiography and manuscripts. He is currently working on several projects relating to Seljuk and Ottoman history. He is co-director of the British Academy-funded research project Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean which is studying links between the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and Southeast Asia from the 16th to 20th centuries.  

Select Publications

2008
- [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.


2007
- 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

-“‘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.
 

2006
- “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.

2005
- “Nomadic society and the Seljuq campaigns in Caucasia”, Iran and the Caucasus 9/ii (2005): 205-230.

2004
- “Ahmad of Niğde’s al-Walad al-Shafiq and the Seljuk past”, Anatolian Studies 54 (2004): 95-107.