Fitzroy Morrissey

Fitzroy Morrissey is a historian of the Islamic world and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He speaks Arabic and Persian and has a DPhil in Oriental Studies from Oxford, where he currently teaches on the Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Theology courses. He works mainly on the intellectual history of the Muslim world, focusing on Sufism, Islamic philosophy, Muslim views of other religions, and modern Islamic thought. He is the co-author of The Odyssey Guide to Iran (Odyssey, 2016) and has two specialist books on Sufi thought forthcoming. His recent book A Short History of Islamic Thought was published by Head of Zeus on 11 November 2021.