BARNABY ROGERSON has written a dozen books about North Africa and Early Islam over the last thirty-five years, along with hundreds of articles and essays.
His latest work brings all this together, The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East. Rory Stewart has described it as: "A Masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects – filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance." MORE
Recent Books
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The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and The Making of the Middle East
At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins …
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In Search of Ancient North Africa
DescriptioIn Search of Ancient North Africa is a journey into the ruins of a landscape to make sense of these stories through the lives of five men and one woman. Together these six lives, clouded with as much myth as fact, represent classical North Africa.
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Heirs of the Prophet
On the one hand, Heirs of the Prophet Muhammed is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry; on the other, it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world.
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The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography
The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, a new state and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an. Barnaby Rogerson's elegant biography looks directly at the life of the Prophet Muhammad and beautifully evokes the Arabian world into which he was born in 570 AD.
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Don McCullin: Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor
Commentary by Barnaby Rogerson
Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor is driven by an eye for beauty and an ear for history. It is an album of the most recent photographs taken by Don McCullin, informed by a life full of hard-won experience …
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On Travel and the Journey through Life
On Travel presents a pyrotechnic display of cracking one-liners, cynical wordplay and comic observation, mining three thousand years of global wit and wisdom: from Pliny to Spinoza and from Albert Einstein to Aunt Augusta …
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A Book Full of Rogersons
The English tend either to look towards the Lord in his moated castle or the poor peasant at his gate, to polarise between nob and mob, capitalist and communist. This book takes us into another English landscape …
A “Top 20” of Barnaby’s articles
Until a few months ago, the Houthi were an obscure footnote to the complex history of the Arabian peninsular, but now due to their habit of firing rockets at ships using the Red Sea … they are very much at the centre of everyone’s attention.