Andrew Newman holds a BA in History, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, and an MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
He joined IMES in 1996, having been a Research Fellow at both the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford and Green College, Oxford, whilst researching topics in the history of Islamic medicine.

Newman has published on early Twelver Shi‘ism and Shi‘i history and thought and on Shi‘ism in Safavid Iran. His most recent monograph is Twelver Shiism, Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722 (Edinburgh, 2013). He is the founder/moderator of Shī‘ī News and Resources.