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Dr Andrew Marsham
Andrew Marsham received his DPhil in Islamic History from the University of Oxford in 2004. He has taught medieval history at the University of Sheffield and has held research fellowships at the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester, during which he completed Rituals of Islamic Monarchy (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) and worked on rebellion and execution in the Umayyad period..
His research interests include political culture and political ritual in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, Umayyad and early Abbasid history, and early Islamic historiography.
He teaches Islamic History: From the Origins of Islam to the Age of Suleiman the Magnificent, Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World, Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires', Early Arabic Historical Texts and Medieval Islamic Political Thought.
Supervision
Dr Andrew Marsham is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research on aspects of the following:
Late antique and Islamic history of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, c.500-c.1300 CE.
Islamic political culture, c.600-c.1300 CE.
Early and medieval Arabic historiography
Comparative history of medieval Islam, Byzantium and the Latin West
Publications
Books
Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: accession and succession in the first Muslim empire. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2009.
Journal Articles
'Public Execution in the Umayyad Period: Early Islamic Punitive Practice and Its Late Antique Context', Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 11 (2011), 101-136.
'‘The Safe-Conduct for the Abbasid 'Abd Allah b. 'Ali (d. 764)’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 70.2 (2007), 247-281. ISSN: 0041-977X. Co-authored with Prof. Chase F. Robinson.
‘“Those who make war on God and His Messenger”: some implications of recent scholarship on rebellion, banditry and state formation in early Islam’, al-‘Usur al-Wusta, 17.2 (2005), 29-31.
Book Chapters
‘The Early Caliphate and the Inheritance of Late Antiquity (c. AD 610 - c. AD 750)’ iin, P. Rousseau, ed., A Companion to Late Antiquity, Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, 2009. ISBN-10: 1405119802; ISBN-13: 978-1405119801.
Reference Work Entries
''Historiography', in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies.,
ed. Tamara Sonn et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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