Professor Philip Wood

Philip Wood is the Tejpar Professor of Inter-Religious Studies at Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, which is located in London. He is a historian of the Middle East and focusses on the history of Christian minorities in the Roman, Sasanian and early Islamic empires (roughly 400-900). His most recent book, The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, 750-850, is published with Princeton University Press. He currently runs a research group, funded by the Gerda Henkel foundation, that investigates the maintenance and formation of ethnic and religious in Abbasid Iraq and Syria (c.750-1000). He is also interested in issues of contemporary social integration and religious education.

He was an undergraduate at Pembroke (2000-2003), where he read History.