Andrew J. NewmanAndrew Newman is Professor of Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire (2006) and The Formative Period of Shi'i Law: Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad (2000) and eitor of Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East, Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period (2003). Read More Read Less