Philip Stewart studied Arabic at the University of Oxford and spent a year in Egypt before working in Algeria for seven years. Until he retired, he taught in the Honour School of Human Sciences at Oxford, with a special interest in the ecology of religion.
He is the author of Unfolding Islam, which sets out to present Islam to non-Muslim reader, and to describe for the general reader - whether Muslims or not - how Islam unfolded over the course of time, and how it continues to do so.
