Dr Andrew Marsham

Reader in Classical Arabic Studies
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Dr Andrew Marsham

Dr Andrew Marsham is Professor of Classical Arabic Studies at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Fellow of Queens' College. His Rituals of Islamic Monarchy (Edinburgh, 2009), is the first full length study of the pledges of allegiance given to the rulers of the early Muslim Empire. He has also written on the execution of rebels, on history writing in Arabic, and on the early Muslim Empire and its Late Antique context. He recently edited The Umayyad World (Routledge, 2020) and co-edited Power, Patronage and Memory in Early Islam (Oxford, 2018) with Alain George (Oxford). He is currently working on The Umayyad Empire (644–750 CE) forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.

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Cambridge
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adm56@cam.ac.uk